"I stand squarely behind my decision," Biden said on Monday, August 16."After 20 years, I've learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw US forces."
When he announced the withdrawal in April, Biden said diplomatic and humanitarian efforts would continue in Afghanistan and that the United States would support peace efforts between the Afghan government and the Taliban. He said he had determined that a war that had killed some 2,300 troops and cost more than $2 trillion no longer fit within the pressing foreign policy concerns of 2021.Thousands of Taliban supporters rally in Quetta, Pakistan, near the Afghan border, on October 1, 2001.
Sgt. Brian Keith sits with his wife, Sara, and their baby son, Stephen, just before his deployment to Afghanistan in March 2010. A few months earlier, President Barack Obama announced a surge of 30,000 additional troops. This new deployment would bring the US total to almost 100,000 troops, in addition to 40,000 NATO troops.US troops, aboard a C-17 transport plane, head to Afghanistan in April 2010.
US Marine Cpl. Burness Britt reacts after being lifted onto a medevac helicopter in June 2011. A large piece of shrapnel from an improvised explosive device cut a major artery on his neck near Sangin, Afghanistan. This photo was taken by Anja Niedringhaus, an Associated Press photographer
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The US abandoned Afghanistan after 20 years of brutal and barbaric occupation. The Taliban came back with little resistance because of US betrayal of Afghan people.
We supposedly went in because it was a hotbed for jihadist training. What do we think it will become now? I hope the military is providing ample mental health resources for all the veterans, many who went there with the patriotic ideals of youth.
US & allied forces have left hapless Afghans to fend for themselves .
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