Biden on Afghanistan: `Time to end America's longest war'

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President Biden says the Sept. 11 attacks “cannot explain” why U.S. troops should remain in Afghanistan 20 years later. Biden plans to give a speech later Wednesday where he will give a timeline for withdrawing troops from America's longest war.

President Joe Biden speaks during a ceremony to honor slain U.S. Capitol Police officer William "Billy" Evans as he lies in honor at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 13, 2021.

Biden says he consulted with allies, military leaders, lawmakers and Vice President Kamala Harris to help make his decision to withdraw all U.S. troops by Sept. 11, two decades after the deadliest attack on American soil. While Biden’s decision keeps U.S. troops in Afghanistan four months longer than initially planned, it sets a firm end to two decades of war that killed more than 2,200 U.S. troops, wounded 20,000, and cost as much as $1 trillion. The conflict largely crippled al-Qaida and led to the death of Osama bin Laden, the architect of the Sept. 11 attacks.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki didn’t provide details of Biden’s remarks planned for Wednesday, but she said during a White House briefing that Biden “has been consistent in his view that there is not a military solution to Afghanistan, that we have been there for far too long.” Biden’s new, extended timeline will allow a safe and orderly withdrawal of American troops in coordination with NATO allies, the administration official added.

Democrats were generally more supportive. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said President Donald Trump’s May 1 deadline limited Biden’s options. “We still have vital interests in protecting against terrorist attacks that could be emanating from that part of the world, but there are other areas, too, we have to be conscious of,” Reed said.

 

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If anyone still thinks two planes ✈️ took down 3 buildings via “fire” in a matter of hours needs to reevaluate their entire educational paradigm.

He's so senile that he 'cannot explain' why he's personally extended their presence till September 11?

RESPECT THE DUHA_AGREEMENT REGARDING WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN.

Amen

Afghanistan is the current generation's Vietnam... almost a carbon copy. The US chooses sides in a civil war and ends up propping up a corrupt government and fighting a guerrilla war it cannot win. In the end we leave with our tail between our legs having accomplished nothing.

Was 911 a coup from Afghanistan? Meanwhile Saudi Arabia is feeding US with oil

transferring the controlled drug fields exactly when and to whom?

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