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CT lawmakers react to Biden s plan to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy said in a statement that it s past time for the American military presence in Afghanistan to end. Author: Alana Seldon (FOX61), FOX61 Staff Published: 4:39 PM EDT April 14, 2021 Updated: 4:39 PM EDT April 14, 2021
HARTFORD, Conn. As the 20th anniversary of the horrifying September 11th attack approaches, Americans can expect their loved ones stationed in Afghanistan to return home.
This comes as President Biden announced on Wednesday plans to withdraw remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Approximately 2,500 servicemen and women are currently in Afghanistan, but the deadly terror attacks cannot explain why American forces should still be there 20 years later, according to Biden.
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On Friday, March 5, The New York Times published an article entitled
Biden Seeks Update for a Much-Stretched Law That Authorizes the War on Terrorism by veteran reporter Charlie Savage. The law in question is known as AUMF, or Authorization of Use of Military Force, and was minted shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks as a kind of skeleton key to any limit of U.S. military force. In the article, Savage unearths a major problem with U.S. foreign policy, or more accurately, the U.S.’s proclivity to use military force, via drone strikes, as a backstop to foreign policy good and bad.