Newsman: The United States is to fight to the future war, not the past, as President Joe Biden said. It would be more formidable thrives competitors if US rather battle for next 20 years, not the past 20 years, he said. “We have to focus on the challenges that are in front of us,” said President Biden, citing the threat of cyber attacks and rising tensions with China. “We will reorganize the counter terrorism capabilities and the substantial assets in the region to prevent reemergence of terrorist are threat to US,the home land. We have to track and disrupt the terrorist’s network and operations that spread far beyond the Afghanistan since 9/11” Biden said.
Speaking from the Treaty Room in the White House, President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he plans to fully withdraw troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, ending 20 years of United States military involvement in the country. He said that he would begin to withdraw troops on May 1, the deadline for complete withdrawal outlined in a deal the Trump administration reached with the Taliban, adding that the U.S. would “not conduct a hasty rush to the exit.”
“I am now the fourth United States president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan. Two Republicans. Two Democrats,” Biden said. “I will not pass this responsibility onto a fifth.” “We went to Afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago,” Biden said. “That cannot explain why we should remain there in 2021.”
“It is time to end America’s longest war. It is time for American troops to come home” he added.
Biden said that the U.S. “cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan hoping to create the ideal conditions for our withdrawal, and expecting a different result.” United States lost 2,448 US troops and personnel in Afgan conflict and 20, 772 were wounded. more than 100,000 Afghans have also died or been wounded during the war as estimated. Biden stressed the devastating loss of life across multiple generations as a result of the war, drawing on his own experience when his son, Beau Biden, served in Iraq. “I am the first president in 40 years who knows what it means to have a child serving in a war zone,” Biden said.
President Joe Biden ordered the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan over the advice of some of his senior-most advisers in the Pentagon and State Department, leaders who are now charged with carrying out the particulars of the complicated drawdown.
An intelligence community report published Tuesday about global threats to the national security of the United States said prospects for a peace deal in Afghanistan are “low” and warned that “the Taliban is likely to make gains on the battlefield.”
If the coalition withdraws support, the Afghan government will “struggle to hold the Taliban at bay,” the report says. The Taliban is confident it can achieve military victory, it adds.
The Biden administration shared the president’s decision with NATO allies this week, and other troops serving from allied countries in Afghanistan will also withdraw, a senior administration official said Tuesday. NATO has about 7,000 non-American forces in the country, according to the alliance
Later on Wednesday, Mr Biden will visit Arlington National Cemetery, where some of the 2,488 US troops who died fighting in Afghanistan are buried.
The deadline Biden has set for pulling all troops out — September 11, the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon that launched the war — is absolute, with no potential for extension based on worsening conditions on the ground.
“I know there are many who will loudly insist that diplomacy cannot succeed without a robust US military presence to stand as leverage,” Biden said during remarks announcing his decision on Wednesday, addressing directly the concerns of some within his own administration. “We gave that argument a decade. It’s never proved effective, not when we had 98,000 troops in Afghanistan, and not when we were down to a few thousand. Our diplomacy does not hinge on having boots in harm’s way, US boots on the ground. We have to change that thinking.”
“American troops shouldn’t be used as a bargaining chip between warring parties in other countries,” he went on. “That’s nothing more than a recipe for keeping American troops in Afghanistan indefinitely.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday that senior administration officials had reached out to about 50 members of Congress, 44 countries, the European Union and the Union Nations regarding Biden’s decision. Biden also spoke with President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan Wednesday, according to the White House.
Biden also consulted former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama on his decision.
Biden’s decision comes after a three-month Afghanistan policy review which determined that any national security threat from Afghanistan is at a “level that we can address it without a persistent military footprint in the country and without being at war with the Taliban,” Biden administration official told to news media.
Biden said that the United States will continue to support the Afghanistan government and will provide assistance to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces. The U.S. will also continue diplomatic and humanitarian work in the country and will support peace talks.
