Joe Biden has been forced to defend his decision withdraw almost all United States troops from Afghanistan. The withdrawal will bring an end the nation's longest war. 9News
After 20 years, a trillion US dollars spent on training and equipment, 2448 US troops killed and an estimated 50,000 Afghani lives lost, America's troop withdrawal is 90 per cent complete.
"I will not send another generation of Americans to war in Afghanistan with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome," Mr Biden said from the East Room after receiving an update from his national security team on the deteriorating security situation on the ground. "The current security situation only confirms that just one more year fighting in Afghanistan is not a solution, but a recipe for being there indefinitely," Mr Biden said on Thursday.In his remarks, Mr Biden said American troops will be done with the military mission by August 31 — weeks ahead of his original schedule.
And Afghan officials accompanying CNN on a tour of Bagram on Monday confessed they were only then getting access to much of the base and working out what had been left behind.
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