Biden on Afghanistan withdrawal: It s time to end America’s longest war
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Replay Video UP NEXT President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan before the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks because it is time to end America’s longest war. We went to Afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago, Biden said. That cannot explain why we should remain there in 2021. The president formally announced the withdrawal in the White House Treaty Room the same place George W. Bush announced the launch of the war on Oct. 7, 2001 just weeks after the 9/11 attacks. Immediately afterward, Biden was scheduled to visit Arlington National Cemetery s Section 60, where many service members who died in Afghanistan and Iraq are buried.
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Biden on Afghanistan withdrawal: It s time to end America s longest war
President Joe Biden announces withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan
Replay Video UP NEXT President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan before the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks because it is time to end America’s longest war. We went to Afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago, Biden said. That cannot explain why we should remain there in 2021. The president formally announced the withdrawal in the White House Treaty Room the same place George W. Bush announced the launch of the war on Oct. 7, 2001 just weeks after the 9/11 attacks. Immediately afterward, Biden visited Arlington National Cemetery s Section 60, where many service members who died in Afghanistan and Iraq are buried.
“It’s perhaps not what I would have negotiated myself, but it was an agreement made by the United States government and that means something, Mr Biden said.
He said the withdrawal would begin on May 1 and be complete before the September 11 deadline.
The Defence Department had accused the Taliban of failing to live up to its end of the Doha agreement as the violence in Afghanistan continued to intensify.
A UN report released on Wednesday found that civilian casualties in Afghanistan have increased by 29 per cent, with about 1,783 civilians killed or injured in the first three months of 2021.
Mr Biden said he spoke about his decision on Tuesday with former president George W Bush, who launched the war in 2001 after Al Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.