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The State Department has released an\xa0After Action Review on Afghanistannearly two years after the U.S.\u2019 catastrophic military withdrawal from that country, which concluded on Aug. 30, 2021.\nThe report was released following a 90-day review and included more than \u201c150 interviews with current and former State Department officials at all levels of the organization and reviewed relevant documents and other materials.\u201d\nThe State Department\xa0released the report, finalized in March 2022, on June 30.\xa0\n\u201cIt\u2019s just shameful, and starting with the timing of the release, they dropped it on the afternoon of the Friday before the 4th of July, which is just a naked attempt to bury it, to not have anybody pay attention to it,\u201d says\xa0Victoria Coates, a senior research fellow in international affairs and national security at The Heritage Foundation. \u201cBut fortunately, there is such interest in this topic that they can\u2019t. They can\u2019t hide how bad this is and this is their own people doing the reporting.\u201d (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)\xa0\nCoates adds:\nThe State Department was shifting blame to the Department of Defense, and basically nobody wanted to be left holding the bag. And what the result was, was 13 dead American heroes in Kabul that didn\u2019t need to be sacrificed.Coates\xa0joins today\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Daily Signal Podcast\u201d to discuss the State Department\u2019s report and her thoughts on the timing of its release, as well as on the end of\xa0Israel\u2019s\xa0recent military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin.\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.