US National security adviser Jake Sullivan reportedly offered to resign from President Biden'sadministration after the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, according to The Washington Post'sDavid Ignatius. Ignatius, a Washington Post columnist, spoke to Sullivan and several of his colleagues as the Biden administration nears its end. Several of Sullivan'scolleagues reportedly told Ignatius that Sullivan offered to resign, and President Biden insisted the national security adviser stay on, according to the report. Ignatius reported that the Afghanistan withdrawal &broke the early comity& of the Biden administration'snational security team, and created a riff between Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.The 2021 withdrawal claimed the lives of more than a dozen American soldiers and led to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) retaking control of the war-torn nation.&You cannot end a war like Afghanistan, where you&ve built up dependencies and pathologies, without the end being complex and challenging,& Sullivan told the Post columnist.
&The choice was: Leave, and it would not be easy, or stay forever.&He added that &leaving Kabul freed the [United States] to deal with Russia'sinvasion of Ukraine in ways that might have been impossible if we had stayed.&Ignatius wrote that the Pentagon resisted Biden'scall to remove all U.S.
troops from Afghanistan and argued in favor of &a residual force of 2,500 in Kabul.&Sullivan reportedly initially shared the Pentagon'sconcerns, Ignatius wrote, citing two close advisers.However, he set out to &loyally& uphold Biden'splan to completely withdraw. The post Biden national security adviser offered to resign over chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal: report first appeared on Ariana News.