Former President Donald Trump and the Biden administration traded shots Monday over who bore the most blame for last year’s Afghanistan collapse, the deaths of 13 American troops and the abandonment of tens of thousands of Afghans who had been promised a safe place but who were abandoned by the U.S. withdrawal.
Mr. Trump defended the withdrawal, which he set in motion with a 2020 agreement with the Taliban.
But he said on Truth Social, his web platform, that the pullout didn’t have to result in the chaos that splashed across television screens a year ago, with Kabul’s fall to the Taliban, U.