Biden on chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal: 'I don't think it was a failure'

President Joe Biden on Wednesday defiantly defended his administration’s execution of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, saying that he doesn’t think the crisis represents a failure and there was no way to better handle the end to the nation’s longest war.

In an interview with ABC News, Biden was asked if it was a failure of intelligence, planning, execution or judgment that led to the situation in Afghanistan.

“I don’t think it was a failure,” the President responded.

He added, “When you had the government of Afghanistan, the leader of that government getting into a plane and taking off and going to