President Joe Biden defends handling of Afghanistan withdrawal, says there is 'no deadline' to getting Americans out
A new survey from Pew Research Center found 54% of U.S. adults favored President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan, while 42% said it was the wrong choice.
The 86th Airlift Wing said Tuesday that about 10,000 evacuees have already departed again for resettlement locations, with some 13,900 still at the base. In addition, France was not able to evacuate a “few dozen” former Afghan employees of the French army who asked for the protection of the country, he said.
“Right now, we should get every American home,” McCarthy told reporters at news conference Tuesday. “I cannot imagine any individual, that is in a policy making position knowingly … telling the American public two weeks before that they will not leave until every Americans home, but decide they're going to leave Americans there.”
“Humanitarian corridors are absolutely essential,” said Michael Breen, president and CEO of Human Rights First, an advocacy group that has been at the forefront of trying to help evacuate at-risk Afghans. Breen and others said Afghans outside of Kabul face even greater threats from the Taliban because there’s less media scrutiny and limited international visibility into what’s happening in those places.
Sullivan says the U.S. intends to continue sending health, food and other forms of humanitarian aid to the Afghan people. He says that other forms of aid, including economic and developmental, would depend on Taliban actions and adherence to publicly stated commitments.
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