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EXPLAINER: Dueling views remain a year after Afghan pullout

FILE - Taliban personnel and airport staffers sit at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 9, 2021. A year after America's tumultuous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, assessments of its impact are divided — and largely along partisan lines. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File) FILE - An Afghan woman holds her children as she waits for a consultation outside a makeshift clinic at a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts housing those displaced by war and drought near Herat, Afghanistan, Dec. 16, 2021. A year after America's tumultuous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, assessments of its impact are divided — and largely along partisan lines. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov, File) FILE - Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds up documents while speaking at a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 14, 2021. A year after America's tumultuous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, assessments of its impact are divided — and largely along partisan lines. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) FILE - In this file photo, provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, families walk towards their flight during ongoing evacuations at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 24, 2021. A year after America's tumultuous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, assessments of its impact are divided — and largely along partisan lines. (Sgt. Samuel Ruiz/U.S. Marine Corps via AP, File) FILE - Hundreds of people gather near a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane at the perimeter of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 16, 2021. A year after America's tumultuous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, assessments of its impact are divided — and largely along partisan lines.(AP Photo/Shekib Rahmani, File) FILE - Taliban special force fighters arrive inside the Hamid Karzai International Airport after the U.S. military's withdrawal, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 31, 2021. A year after America's tumultuous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, assessments of its impact are divided — and largely along partisan lines. (AP Photo/Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi, File)
EXPLAINER: Dueling views remain a year after Afghan pullout