American diplomats’ failure to anticipate the Taliban’s eventual takeover of Afghanistan played a key role in causing the deadly chaos of the August 2021 US withdrawal from Kabul.
“The department simply was,” Shaw told the House Oversight Committee. “And the critical question, of course, is why?”
“The Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Program for which the Department of State is primarily responsible, still has more than 152,000 SIV applicants in Afghanistan undergoing processing as of last month,” she said. Facing a hostile new government, embassy officials were forced to shut down in-country operations while simultaneously scrambling to process the more than 120,000 Americans and US allies who were evacuated in a little more than two weeks, Shaw said.evacuate the number of people it ultimately didShaw told the House Oversight Committee, “The department simply was not fully prepared for the full range of challenges encountered.
“As a result, communications with embassy personnel were unclear as to the timing and scope of a potential evacuation, leading to confusion and in some cases, inadequate preparation,” she said.
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