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With Afghan Decision, Biden Seeks to Focus U.S. on New Challenges
The president’s choice to set a firm date for a full withdrawal reflected a belief that the priorities of 2021 require moving on from policies set in 2001.
In setting a firm timetable for withdrawal, President Biden signaled that he wanted the United States to focus on new priorities like fighting poverty and racial inequities.Credit.Pete Marovich for The New York Times
April 13, 2021, 7:27 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON President Biden’s decision to pull all American troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 was rooted in his belief that there is no room for continuing 20 years of failed efforts to remake that country, especially at a moment when he wants the United States focused on a transformational economic and social agenda at home and other fast-evolving threats from abroad.
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Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes have published images allegedly found in a plastic container in the garden of Australia’s most decorated corporal, Ben Roberts-Smith.
The images show at least one of these elite soldiers dressed in a Ku Klux Klan outfit holding up a noose, and others drinking from a war trophy the prosthetic leg of an alleged Taliban fighter.
In an effort to stop whistle blowers, Roberts-Smith is suing the media, with the support of media magnate and his boss Kerry Stokes, who also happens to be the Australian War Memorial chair.
Information previously leaked by whistleblowers led to the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force authorising an investigation. The highly redacted Afghanistan Inquiry by Major General Paul Brereton, released last November, looked into the conduct of Australia’s special forces, including the alleged murder of 39 Afghan people.
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