INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
US National security adviser Jake Sullivan reportedly offered to resign from President Biden&s administration after the botched withdrawal
from Afghanistan in 2021, according to The Washington Post&s David Ignatius. Ignatius, a Washington Post columnist, spoke to Sullivan and
several of his colleagues as the Biden administration nears its end. Several of Sullivan&s colleagues 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&s national 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&s invasion of Ukraine in ways that might have been impossible if we had stayed.Ignatius wrote that the Pentagon resisted Biden&s call
to remove all United States troops from Afghanistan and argued in favor of &a residual force of 2,500 in Kabul.Sullivan reportedly
initially shared the Pentagon&s concerns, Ignatius wrote, citing two close advisers.However, he set out to &loyally& uphold Biden&s plan to
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