20 years of American occupation in Afghanistan was brutal â the exit will be too
(Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith)
President Joe Biden lays a wreath and observes a moment of silence during a visit to Section 60 Wednesday, April 14, 2021, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
When a reporter in early July asked Joe Biden a question about the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. president sniped back, saying, "I want to talk about happy things, man." Biden revealed, perhaps unintentionally, that the situation in Afghanistan is anything but a happy topic. It might have been one of the most revealing responses from a sitting president about the longest-running war in modern United States history.