Biden Admin Acknowledges Flaws in Afghanistan Pullout, Says Should Have Evacuated Troops Sooner

Lisa Curtis, the senior director for south and central Asia at the National Security Council during the Trump administration, told USA TODAY there were failures in Afghanistan in both the current and the previous administration.

Trump's administration is responsible for negotiating "a terrible, terrible deal" with the Taliban and "demoralizing the Afghan security forces," Curtis said.

But she also said Biden had an opportunity to negotiate a better deal with the Taliban and chose not to.

"And in fact, during the transition process, that is what I advised the Biden administration, that they did not have to stick with the badly negotiated Doha deal," she said. "That was their choice."

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