Blame-shifting over US withdrawal ignores deeper failings in Afghanistan

Blame-shifting over US withdrawal ignores deeper failings in Afghanistan
Blame-shifting over US withdrawal ignores deeper failings in Afghanistan
Blame-shifting over US withdrawal ignores deeper failings in Afghanistan

Analysis: Senators’ questions to military leadership a contest in sharing out responsibility for failures

The deeply partisan US Congress is rarely a conducive place for national introspection and Tuesday’s Senate hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal did not provide an exception.

In the midst of the point-scoring and blame-shifting on display in the senators’ questions to the nation’s military leadership, it was clear that it was a contest to apportion shares in failure.

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