He also added that :"It's up to 'the Afghan people alone to decide their future"

President Joe Biden today stood by his decision to end the war in Afghanistan, insisting no amount of sustained American presence there could resolve the country's own intractable problems.

Speaking as a near-complete withdrawal of American troops coincides with major Taliban gains, Biden grew defensive when pressed on the likelihood of a total Taliban takeover.

He said it was now up to the Afghans to defend their country. And he insisted there was nothing more the United States could do after two decades of war.

Less than a month after two passenger jets commandeered by hijackers brought down New York's World Trade Center, with a third hitting the Pentagon and another crashing into a field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, US forces began an attack that would soon topple the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, which had harbored Osama bin Laden's terror campaign.

We've been there long enough....The withdrawal has proceeded quickly after Biden announced in April he would wind down America's presence in Afghanistan by September 11, the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks that prompted the war.
 

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