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| The U.S. will pull from Afghanistan. |
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The United States said that it will finally withdraw from Afghanistan. It is the longest war in American history. It will certainly create outrage from the far-right. After all, it wasn't under the former.
Washed Up 45 and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made an agreement with the Taliban to hold formal withdrawal. It was expected to take place in May and end by September 11, 2021.
President Joe Biden said that he will honor the previous administration's terms.
Biden said that four presidents procede over this war. He said that the time has come for American troops to come home. He said that the U.S. had captured many members of al Qaeda.
"We cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan hoping to create the ideal conditions for our withdrawal, expecting a different result," Biden said.
"I am now the fourth American president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan. Two Republicans. Two Democrats," he added. "I will not pass this responsibility to a fifth."
Osama Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan. Mohammad Omar died of Tuberculosis. Anwar al-Awlaki died in Yemen. Adam Gadahn died in Pakistan. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died in Syria. John Walker Lindh was convicted and sentenced to federal time out (later released).
Every high profiled member of either al Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Taliban were captured or killed.
The movement to face terrorism online is crucial. The United States vows to defend its interests here and abroad.
Biden said that diplomatic and foreign aid will continue.
Biden will say that American diplomatic and humanitarian efforts will continue in Afghanistan and would support peace efforts between the Afghan government and the Taliban. But he'll be unequivocal that two decades after it began, the Afghanistan war is ending.
"It is time to end America's longest war. It is time for American troops to come home," he said.
Biden said the withdrawal will begin on May 1, in line with an agreement President Donald Trump's administration made with the Taliban. He said the complete withdrawal will be done by September 11.
The deadline Biden has set is absolute, with no potential for extension based on worsening conditions on the ground. Officials said after two decades of war, it was clear to the President that throwing more time and money at Afghanistan's problems wasn't going to work.
As predicted, white nationalist Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) will bitch about it saying that the U.S. has given the white flag to the terrorists. The "Great American" sissies on the far-right will dog Biden for caving to "terrorists"
Like listening to that annoying white nationalist Sean "Softball" Hannity is bad enough. Wondering who he's going to blame when things go bad?
It happened under Washed Up 45..... Biden is honoring the commitment.
Kind of like giving the washed up former president some credit. On top of that Biden will reenter talks with Iran to reestablish the nuclear deal that was created in 2015 but pulled out in 2019.
"This is not conditions-based," a senior administration official heavily involved in the deliberations said on Tuesday. "The President has judged that a conditions-based approach, which has been the approach of the past two decades, is a recipe for staying in Afghanistan forever."
Some US troops will remain to protect American diplomats, though officials declined to provide a precise number.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Wednesday he spoke to Biden and that he "respects the US decision."
"Afghanistan's proud security and defense forces are fully capable of defending its people and country, which they have been doing all along, and for which the Afghan nation will forever remain grateful," Ghani said on Twitter.
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| It's time to come home. |
Biden has spent months weighing his decision, and determined a war in Afghanistan that killed some 2,300 troops and cost more than $2 trillion no longer fit within the pressing foreign policy concerns of 2021.
That was true of Biden's two most recent predecessors as well, who both attempted withdrawals from Afghanistan only to be drawn back in by devolving security and attempts to prop up the government. Biden has made a different calculation that the US and the world must simply move on.
Biden said that he spoke with former President George W. Bush on Tuesday ahead of announcing his decision to withdraw the troops.
"I spoke yesterday with President Bush to inform him of my decision. While he and I have had many disagreements over policy throughout the years, we are absolutely united in our respect and support for the valor, courage and integrity of the women and men of the United States forces who've served," Biden said.
His foreign policy priorities now lie elsewhere in Asia, where he hopes to compete with China, and in Russia, whose President he spoke with Tuesday and proposed an upcoming summit.
"We went to Afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago. That cannot explain why we should remain there in 2021," Biden will say, according to his speech excerpts. "Rather than return to war with the Taliban, we have to focus on the challenges that will determine our standing and reach today and into the years to come."
Still, as Biden was making his decision, the prospect of the Taliban returning to power and potentially rolling back gains on security, democracy and women's rights provided a stark counter-argument to an immediate US. withdrawal.
Deliberations stretched longer than some US officials expected, even as Biden signaled repeatedly a May 1 deadline was near-impossible to meet. Hoping to provide space for him to make an informed final decision that he wouldn't come to regret, officials sought to avoid pressuring a President known for blowing past deadlines. Top-level meetings were convened at an unusually high rate.
