Biden stood firm in his decision while insisting the Afghan government discouraged the U.S. from getting civilians out sooner.
] to withdraw our forces, or escalating the conflict and sending thousands more American troops back into combat in Afghanistan, lurching into the third decade of conflict…. I stand squarely behind my decision.” Conceding that the situation in Afghanistan had become “hard and messy,” hethat “after 20 years I have learned the hard way that there [is] never a good time to withdraw.
While pledging to rescue thousands of Afghans who aided the U.S. during the two-decade conflict, Biden alsothe Afghan government and some of the local civilians themselves for the current situation. “I know that there are concerns about why we did not begin evacuating Afghan civilians sooner,” he said. “Part of the answer is some of the Afghans did not want to leave earlier, still hopeful for their country.
“How many more generations of America’s daughters and sons would you have me send to fight Afghanistan’s civil war, when Afghan troops will not?” Biden
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