We did not go into Afghanistan to nation-build,’ says Biden as he defends U.S. military withdrawal

WithU.S. colors nearly fully out of Afghanistan and the Taliban making rapid-fire territorial earnings in the country,U.S. President Joe Biden said that theU.S. wasn’t in Afghanistan for nation- structure purposes and that it was for the Afghans to decide their future.Mr. Biden also said that theU.S. military charge would conclude by August 31.

The manner and speed with which theU.S. service is pulling out after a twenty time presence in the country has been criticised, with brewing enterprises about whether the current Afghan government can repel the Taliban and the consequences for the peace, security, and the future of women and girls.

On Thursday,Mr. Biden said theU.S. had achieved what it had gone into Afghanistan to do, including precluding it from getting a base from which theU.S. could be attacked.

We didn’t go to Afghanistan to nation- figure. And it’s the right and the responsibility of Afghan people alone to decide their future, and how they want to run their country,” he said, speaking on the troop drawdown from the East Room of the White House.

There was noway any mistrustfulness that our military performed this task efficiently and with the loftiest position of professionalism,” he said. Yet, American colors left Bagram Airfield last week-their largest base in Afghanistan-in the nothingness of night, without informing the Afghans, according to the base’s new commander. The place was pillaged before Afghan colors could take it over.

Let me ask those who want us to stay How numerous further?”Mr. Biden said on Thursday. “ How numerous thousands more American daughters and sons are you willing to risk?”
To those who had worked with theU.S. side in Afghanistan, similar as motori

sts and translators and their families,Mr. Biden said, “ There’s a home for you in the United States, if you so choose. And we will stand with you, just as you stood with us.” The administration has said it’s moving people who worked with theU.S. and who are interested in shifting to America to third countries while they await visas.

Mr. Biden said theU.S. was going to work with the parties in Afghanistan as well as other countries to support a negotiated result to end the violence.

To be clear, to be clear, countries in the region have an essential part to play in supporting a peaceful agreement, we’ll work with them, and they should help step up their sweats as well,” he said.