WASHINGTON D.C.- President Joe Biden “made the right decision” to withdraw U.S. military forces from Afghanistan and bring an end to America’s longest war, but “there’s no question that a lot went wrong in the execution of that exit,” former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said.

“We stayed way, way too long,” Nebraska’s former two-term Republican senator said in a weekend interview.

“We were never going to win that war,” Hagel said, not in a tribal country where “the Afghan government was losing and getting weaker while the Taliban was growing stronger.’’

“Biden could have put 50,000 more U.S. troops in there,” and it would not have changed the outcome, Hagel said.

“They are elusive,” he said. “There is no surrender.”

“I admire Biden for making the tough decision,” Hagel said. “He did the difficult thing; he knew he’d have tremendous backlash.

“It was not going to be pretty; it was going to be chaos.

“It was going to be very, very difficult even if we had been much better prepared. But this was not a surprise.

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