BBCNEWS Click August 21, 2021 14:48:00
Consequences. what the administration has said in its defence is when it came into power, it inherited a programme that had been basically put on hold under the trump administration, very few of these afghan nationals had been vetted and it had been put on ice for a year because of code red. there was a 17,000 person backlog in this process and then when president biden decided to go ahead with the withdrawal, the urgency became greater. but then the afghan leadership at the time asked mr biden not to go very strong on the evacuation because it would show a lack of confidence in the government...
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