President Joe Biden Announces The Withdrawal Of U.S Troops From Afghanistan Over 911 Attack (Video)

 

President Joe Biden on Wednesday formally introduced his choice to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan before Sept. 11, the 20 th anniversary of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that led america into its longest battle.

"We cannot maintain the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan hoping to create an appropriate situations for our withdrawal, awaiting a different result," Biden said.

"I am now the fourth American president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan. Two Republicans. Two Democrats," he introduced. "I will now not skip this duty to a 5th."

In a sign he perspectives his feedback as a historic bookend to the extended struggle, he introduced them from exactly the identical spot within the White House Treaty Room that President George W. Bush introduced the start of the battle on October 7, 2001.

Afterward he will go to the segment of Arlington National Cemetery where lots of America's warfare lifeless from Afghanistan are buried.

Biden will say that American diplomatic and humanitarian efforts will retain in Afghanistan and would support peace efforts among the Afghan government and the Taliban. But he's going to be unequivocal that  many years after it commenced, the Afghanistan struggle is finishing.

"It is time to quit America's longest struggle. It is time for American troops to come back domestic," he stated.

Biden said the withdrawal will start on May 1, in step with an agreement President Donald Trump's management made with the Taliban. He stated the complete withdrawal may be finished by using Sept. 11.

The cut-off date Biden has set is absolute, with no potential for extension primarily based on worsening situations on the ground. Officials said after  decades of conflict, it became clean to the President that throwing greater time and money at Afghanistan's problems wasn't going to work.

"This isn't always conditions-based totally," a senior management authentic closely concerned inside the deliberations said on Tuesday. "The President has judged that a situations-based method, which has been the technique of the beyond two a long time, is a recipe for staying in Afghanistan all the time."

Some US troops will continue to be to guard American diplomats, although officers declined to offer a precise wide variety.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani stated Wednesday he spoke to Biden and that he "respects the United States selection."

"Afghanistan's proud protection and protection forces are fully able to defending its humans and u . S . A ., which they had been doing all along, and for which the Afghan country will for all time continue to be grateful," Ghani said on Twitter.