President Biden's Remarks on Afghanistan: Do you Agree or Disagree?

August 16, 2021 President Biden gave a speech regarding Afghanistan and its now state of emergency. Currently the Taliban has taken over the Afghanistan country two weeks before U.S were set to withdrawal the troops. After a long costly two-decade old war President Biden is still deciding to pull the U.S troops out of Afghanistan and some people are not happy about it! President Biden stated:
"American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves!"
"We went to Afghanistan almost 20 years ago with clear goals: get those who attacked us on September 11th, 2001, and make sure al Qaeda could not use Afghanistan as a base from which to attack us again.
We did that. We severely degraded al Qaeda in Afghanistan. We never gave up the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and we got him. That was a decade ago. Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation building. It was never supposed to be creating a unified, centralized democracy. Our only vital national interest in Afghanistan remains today what it has always been: preventing a terrorist attack on American homeland."

Some sources say that President Ashraf Ghani has fled Afghanistan as the Taliban swept violently across his own country! Which also leads us to think, should our U.S president and troops step in? Is Biden wrong for pulling our troops? Let us know if you agree or disagree with President Biden's remarks. #StreetLove



Article by: Jamaila Robinson
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