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And intelligence professionals. for weeks, they risked their lives to get american citizens, afghans who helped us, citizens of our allies and partners and others on board planes and out of the country. but this was a president on the defensive, widely criticised for the way and apparent haste with which america withdrew from afghanistan, leaving some us citizens behind. mr biden insisted he was right to end the "forever war" and not to extend what he called the "forever exit". he laid the blame in part at donald trump for doing a deal with the taliban, but also with afghan government forces. ...

Bluntly saying he was not going to extend a forever war. >> we were left with a simple decision. either follow through on the commitment made by the last administration and leave afghanistan or say we weren't leaving and commit another tens of thousands more troops going back to war. that was the choice, the real choice, between leaving or escalating. i was not going to extend this forever war. and i was not extending a forever exit. >> answering back at critics who say the evacuations should have started sooner. >> i take responsibility for the decision. now, some say we should have started m...

That have amounted to a forever exit? biden says the options were leave or get in deeper. this ultimate battle of perception on this exit are going to be whether biden was right to remove all u.s. boots from the ground with as many as 200 american civilians still stuck in afghanistan and who knows how many allies. here is his case on that point. >> since march, we reached out 19 times to americans in afghanistan with multiple warnings and offers to help them leave afghanistan all the way back as far as march. our operation allied rescue ended up getting more than 5,500 americans out, 90% of am...

Military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. that was the choice, the real choice, between leaving or escalating. i was not going to extend this forever war. and i was not extending a forever exit. to those asking for a third decade of war in afghanistan, i ask, what is the vital national interest? it was time to end this war. we will maintain the fight against terrorism. we just don't need to fight a ground war to do it. and to isis-k, we are not done with you yet. >> the speech gets the broader outlines of his foreign policy, saying that the era of nation building is over. the ...

On board planes and out of the country. but this was a president on the defensive. widely criticised for the way and apparent haste with which america withdrew from afghanistan, leaving some us citizens behind. biden insisted he was right to end the forever war and not to extend what he calls the forever exit. he laid the blame, in part, on donald trump, for doing a deal with the taliban, but also, with afghan government forces. the assumption was that more than 300,000 afghan national security forces that we had trained over the past two decades and equipped would be a strong anniversary in t...