“We gave them every tool they could need. We paid their salaries. Provided for the maintenance of their airplanes. We gave them every chance to determine their own future. What we could not provide was the will to fight for that future. There was only the cold reality. Of either following through on the agreement to withdraw our forces, or escalating the conflict and sending thousands more American troops back into combat in Afghanistan, and lurching into the third decade of conflict. I stand squarely behind my decision. Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. If anything, the developments of the past week reinforce that ending us military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision.”
16 Aug 2021
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