In an address from the White House, Biden stood by his decision to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan, insisting he would not repeat past mistakes.
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House August 16.
“The Afghan military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight. If anything, the developments of the past week reinforced that ending US military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision. American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight themselves.
Biden reiterated his position that the war was never meant to be about nation-building or establishing a stable democracy in the country. Biden said in his address on Monday that the US will “continue to speak out for the basic rights of the Afghan people, of women and girls,” using diplomacy and “economic tools.”
last month that a Taliban takeover of the country was not “inevitable,” and that the Afghan army was “as well-equipped as any army in the world.”
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