“We gave them every chance to determine their own future. What we could not provide them was the will to fight for their own future”
Photo: Shutterstock The day after Taliban swiftly overran Afghanistan’s capital, President Joe Biden answered ferocious criticism of his administration’s role in the country, confessing the collapse of the government in Kabul “did unfold more quickly than we anticipated.” The end of America’s longest war has been so chaotic that at least three Afghans were seen clinging to a U.S.
“We gave them every chance to determine their own future,” Biden said of Afghanistan’s government. “What we could not provide them was the will to fight for their own future.” The president laced into the fallen U.S. ally, saying bluntly that Afghan forces “collapsed sometimes without trying to fight” and that “Americans should not die” in a war Afghans “are not willing to” wage.
The U.S. mission now is to first evacuate civilian personnel and Afghan allies who are eligible for special immigrant visas, Biden said, adding that he has authorized the deployment of 7,000 U.S. troops to Hamid Karzai International Airport to secure a safe exit. Biden added that the State Department would be expanding access for SIV applicants “in the coming days.
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