President Joe Biden has defended the US pullout from Afghanistan, saying he stood by the policy and that it was time to leave after 20 years of conflict.
The US leader acknowledged that the Afghan government collapsed more quickly than he expected and suggested that they had lacked the will to stand up to the Taliban.So what's happened? Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military gave up, sometimes without trying to fight"We gave them every chance to determine their own future. We could not provide them with the will to fight for that future.
"Mr Biden reiterated however that the US national interest in Afghanistan was always principally about preventing terrorist attacks on the US homeland - and that America would continue to"act quickly and decisively" against any terror threat emanating from the country.And, the US President issued a stark warning to the Taliban not to disrupt or threaten the evacuation of thousands of American diplomats and Afghan translators at the Kabul airport.
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