“The top U.S. general in Afghanistan during the American military’s 2021 withdrawal repeatedly warned Washington that security would get ‘very bad, very fast’ after troops departed, but the Biden administration still failed to grasp the danger in keeping its embassy open with only nominal protection, he told lawmakers investigating the war’s deadly endgame,” the Washington Post reports.
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