CNN CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera August 19, 2021 17:06:00
Was it? >> no. the decision to withdraw, that's one thing. the handling of the decision, abysmal. the president promised that we would continue support for the afghan security services. there was zero planning for how to do that, how to service the aircraft when we pulled the contractors out. so we gutted them when we pulled the contractors out. massive undermining of afghan morale which helped not the only factor, but helped lead to the collapse of the afghan army. the months between his decision and now when there was no evacuation program, a special immigrant visas, all those people could h...