Khalilzad: The US withdrawal from Afghanistan could have been worse

The former US envoy to Afghanistan says the US withdrawal from Afghanistan was not regular but could have been worse.

Zalmai Khalilzad was quoted by Wake as saying in his first interview with CBS after his resignation as US envoy to Afghanistan that the US withdrawal from Afghanistan was not regular but could have been worse.

“One of the reasons I left the government is that the debate was not as it should be based on the facts and facts about what happened, what is happening and alternatives,” Khalilzad said in the interview. . »

“The former president asked me to negotiate our withdrawal from Afghanistan and to make a commitment to the Taliban,” he added. “This has been achieved.”

“I’m not saying it was a regular exit,” he said. It was an ugly and final stage, but at the same time it claimed that it could undoubtedly be much worse.