Pentagon leaders blame State Department for chaotic Afghanistan evacuation of civilians
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Top Pentagon officials blamed the State Department for not beginning evacuations of civilians from Afghanistan sooner, calling the efforts "chaotic."
Pressed on why evacuations did not begin sooner, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said it was a "State Department call."
"We provide an input, as I said in my opening statement, to the State Department," Austin said, explaining, though, that officials were "being cautioned" by the Ghani administration that "if they withdrew American citizens and SIV applicants at a pace that was too fast, it would cause a collapse of the government that we were trying to prevent."
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