Biden says there was no way to get out of Afghanistan without chaos ensuing

US President Joe Biden believes that chaos after the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan was inevitable, Report informs.

“The idea that somehow, there’s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don’t know how that happens. I don’t know how that happened,” Biden said in an interview with ABC channel.

The president said it was “a simple choice” to withdraw US forces, and he faulted the Afghan government and its military for not more forcibly defending the capital.

“Look, it was a simple choice,” Biden said. “When you had the government of Afghanistan, the leader of that government, get in a plane and taking off and going to another country, when you saw the significant collapse of the Afghan troops we had trained, up to 300,000 of them, just leaving their equipment and taking off - that was, you know, I’m not, that’s what happened.”

“That’s simply what happened. And so the question was, in the beginning, the threshold question was, do we commit to leave within the time frame we set, do we extend it to Sept. 1, or do we put significantly more troops in?”

In the interview, Biden also stressed he’s committed to keeping a troop presence in Afghanistan until every American who wants to get out is safely evacuated.