president, noting he is the fourth to preside over the war in Afghanistan. Biden Will Not Pass the War Onto Next Presidentīiden vowed the country will not repeat the mistakes of the past and said: "I will not pass this responsibly on" to a fifth U.S. Ghani insisted the Afghan forces would fight, but obviously he was wrong," Biden added. "I also urged them to engage in diplomacy, to seek a political settlement with the Taliban," he said, "this advice was flatly refused." While Biden "talked extensively" with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani about the need for Afghan leaders to unite politically, "they failed to do any of that." troops remained in Afghanistan bearing the brunt of the fighting for them," he said. "If the political leaders of Afghanistan were unable to come together for the good of their people, unable to negotiate for the future of their country when the chips were down, they would never have done so while U.S. What we could not provide them was the will to fight for that future. "We gave them every chance to determine their own future. spent over a trillion dollars to help train and equip the Afghan military force, including for the maintenance of their air force, which is "something the Taliban doesn't have." The president explained: "We gave them every tool they could need," highlighting that the U.S. He said: "It is wrong to order American troops to step up when Afghanistan's own armed forces would not." soldiers "cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves." Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Afghan Forces 'Not Willing to Fight for Themselves'īiden said that U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House on August 16. "I will not mislead the American people by claiming that just a little more time in Afghanistan will make all the difference." military boots on the ground would've made any difference. He said that while there have been "very brave and capable" Afghan forces in the country, "if Afghanistan is unable to mount any real resistance to the Taliban now, there is no chance that 1 year - 1 more year, 5 more years, or 20 more years of U.S. mission in Afghanistan had taken "many missteps" over the past 20 years, the president declared: "What is happening now could just as easily have happened 5 years ago or 15 years in the future." military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision." No Length of Time in Afghanistan 'Would've Made Any Difference'īiden stated that "no amount of military force" would be able to establish a "secure Afghanistan."
He added: "If anything, the developments of the past week reinforced that ending U.S. The Afghan military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight." However, he said the situation "did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated," explaining that "Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. Withdrawing Now Was the Right Decisionīiden said that following two decades he "learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. "Our only vital national interest in Afghanistan remains today what it has always been: preventing a terrorist attack on American homeland," the president said. It is not what our troops, who have sacrificed so much over the past two decades, deserve. "This is not in our national security interest. The president added that he cannot ask troops to "fight on endlessly" in another country's civil war.
We never gave up the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and we got him. We severely degraded al Qaeda in Afghanistan. troops arrived in Afghanistan nearly 20 years ago with "clear goals," and that was to "get those who attacked us on September 11, 2001, and make sure al Qaeda could not use Afghanistan as a base from which to attack us again." mission in Afghanistan was "never supposed to have been nation building" or about "creating a unified, centralized democracy." 'Nation Building' Was Never the Goal in Afghanistan Here we take a closer look at the key points from President Biden's remarks on Afghanistan. Biden Authorizes Hundreds of Millions to Help Fleeing Afghanistan Refugees.CNN Launches Scathing Attack of Joe Biden Over Afghanistan Speech.
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