On the Kabul Bombing Anniversary, US President Donald Trump honoured the fallen while criticizing Joe Biden’s way of handling the withdrawal. During the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, Kabul airport was targeted with a bombing, which claimed the lives of 13 American service members.
Trump was accompanied by 35 relatives of the Americans who were killed, one wearing a ‘Make America Great Again’ cap. Trump called the day ‘the dumbest in history’. He stated that it was the ‘most embarrassing day’ to ever exist in the country.
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Abby Gate was also attacked on August 26, 2021, which claimed the lives of 100 Afghans.
Biden and Trump’s Roles in Withdrawal
Biden’s administration carried out the final exit from Afghanistan; however, it was followed by a withdrawal deal that Trump had negotiated earlier with the Taliban. A government report of 2022 implies that both Trump and Biden’s administrations’ decisions led to the military’s collapse in Afghanistan and added to the Taliban takeover.
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On the third anniversary in 2024, Biden called the 13 Americans killed ‘patriots in the highest sense’ who ’embodied the very best of who we are as a nation’.
