An opinion poll showed the decline in popular support for US President Joe Biden and reached its lowest level since taking office, while many members of the US Congress expressed their disappointment with developments in Afghanistan, with the collapse of the Afghan government backed by the United States, and the Taliban's control of the capital cable.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll, conducted last Monday, revealed that 46% of American adults support Biden's performance in office, which is the lowest level recorded in weekly opinion polls since Biden took office last January.
Biden's approval rating was 53% in a similar poll conducted by Reuters/Ipsos last Friday.
Biden's popularity plummeted after the Taliban entered the capital, Kabul, ending the 20-year US military presence that cost US taxpayers trillions of dollars and thousands of lives.
But a majority of Republican and Democratic voters alike said the chaos was a sign that the United States had to leave.
A separate poll conducted by Ipsos on Monday found that less than half of Americans approved of the way Biden has led US military and diplomatic efforts in Afghanistan this year.
The president, who only last month praised Afghan forces as "as well-equipped as any other country in the world," was ranked worse than the three other presidents who oversaw the United States' longest war.
On the other hand, many members of the US Congress expressed their disappointment with the developments in Afghanistan, and lawmakers are scheduled to hold a hearing to discuss the mistakes of the administrations of former Presidents Donald Trump and current Joe Biden.
Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the events of recent days marked the culmination of a series of mistakes made by Republican and Democratic administrations over the past 20 years.
"We are now seeing the terrible outcome of years of failures in political curriculum and intelligence failures," he added.
Menendez confirmed that his committee will conduct a hearing on US policies in Afghanistan, including the Trump administration's negotiations with the Taliban, and the Biden administration's implementation of the withdrawal plan, without providing any information on the date of the session.
In turn, the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Democratic Senator Mark Warner, confirmed that he intends to work with other committees "to ask difficult but necessary questions" about the reasons why the United States is not prepared for such a development in Afghanistan.
On the other hand, Republican members of Congress continued to criticize the Biden administration's policies in Afghanistan.
Republicans on the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee said in a letter to the White House on Tuesday that the security and humanitarian crisis now developing in Afghanistan could have been avoided if you had made some plans.
In the same context, the American "Fox News" website revealed that Biden had cut short his scheduled vacation until the end of the week at Camp David, and his return to the White House with increasing criticism of his administration from both parties.
This comes against the backdrop of the fall of the government of President Ashraf Ghani in Afghanistan, and the Taliban's control of the reins of affairs before the completion of the US withdrawal from the country.
And since last May, the Taliban began expanding its influence in Afghanistan, coinciding with the start of the last stage of the withdrawal of US forces, which is scheduled to be completed by August 31.
In less than 10 days, the movement took control of almost all of Afghanistan, despite billions of dollars spent by the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), over a period of nearly 20 years, to build Afghan security forces.