#shorts On 4/6/2023, a reporter asked NSC Spox John Kirby, “There’s four pages here of blame on the previous administration or this White House explanation of what the last White House did regarding Afghanistan. Nowhere in here does there appear to be any expression of accountability or mistake by either the President himself or others. Is there any for what happened?

MR. KIRBY: I would argue that the very fact that we voluntarily — the agencies voluntarily decided to go conduct after-action reviews — nobody told them to do that. That wasn’t legislated by Congress. They did that on their own.

And the fact that they did that and that we’re now placing it in — in — on the Hill for Congress to look at; the fact that we digested and distilled some of the key points of that and gave it out in a public document; the fact that I’m up here talking to you about it, I think, shows you how seriously the President felt about learning lessons from this withdrawal.

I would also point out to you that the work isn’t over.

So, number one, even before you got that document, some of those lessons were applied. I had talked about Ethiopia. I talked about Ukraine.

And number two, it’s not like — it’s not like the work is all over. The President signed the legislation enabling the — the Afghan War Commission to be formed. And we’re going to continue to work and cooperate with that. That’s going to look at the whole 20 years.

And America’s longest war deserves a lengthy review and lengthy study, and the President is committed to that. Thank you.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/NR9KwnnNvaU
4 pages of blame on Trump Admin, Nowhere any accountability or mistake by Biden?