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Kabul: The US Office of Inspection for Afghanistan Reconstruction, known as SIGAR, has stated that the US sought to establish stable, democratic, gender-sensitive and responsive governance institutions in Afghanistan, but it failed in this mission.
SIGAR added that efforts by US President Biden to keep America’s commitment to rescue and resettle tens of thousands of Afghan allies left behind in the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan is being undermined by “bureaucratic dysfunction and understaffing.”
“The U.S. promised to resettle its allies in safety, but the United States is failing,” a stark assessment from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) read.
SIGAR released its 2023 High-Risk List report Wednesday, which identifies the serious risks posed to more than $8 billion the U.S. has sent to the Afghan people since withdrawal in August 2021.
Inspector General John Sopko and watchdogs for the Defense and State Departments, as well as the U.S. Agency for International Development are testifying to Congress Wednesday in a hearing entitled, “The Biden Administration’s Disastrous Withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Earlier this month, the White House released its own assessment of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which mostly blamed former President Trump’s administration for constraining the conditions of evacuation.
“President Biden’s choices for how to execute a withdrawal from Afghanistan were severely constrained by conditions created by his predecessor,” the White House review said.
