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In an address from the White House, president Joe Biden promised on April 14th that he will withdraw the remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, ending America's longest military intervention in a foreign country.
We went to Afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago. That cannot explain why we should remain there in 2021...
We were attacked, we went to war with clear goals...
We achieved those objectives. Bin Laden is dead and al-Qaida is degraded in Afghanistan, and it's time to end this forever war.
We cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan hoping to create ideal conditions for the withdrawal and expecting a different result...
I'm now the fourth United States president to preside over American troop presence in Afghanistan, two Republicans, two Democrats. I will not pass the responsibility onto a fifth.