.MarthaRaddatz on Pres. Biden's Afghanistan remarks: 'It was a very successful evacuation. We did get more than 120K people out of there. But he's conflating the withdrawal with the evacuation...they didn't realize the Taliban would take over so quickly.'
In his address to the nation, the president said it was time to end the war.
"We succeeded in what we set out to do in Afghanistan over a decade ago. Then we stayed for another decade. It was time to end this war," he said."This is a new world: Al-Qaida affiliates in Syria and ISIS attempting to create a caliphate in Syria and Iraq and establishing affiliates across Africa nation. The fundamental obligation of a president, in my opinion, is to defend and protect America. Not against threats of 2001 but against the threats of 2021 and tomorrow.
"That is the guiding principle behind my decisions about Afghanistan," he added."I simply do not believe that the safety and security of America is enhanced by continuing to deploy thousands of American troops and sending billions of dollars."
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