Joe BidenBiden administration still seizing land near border despite plans to stop building wall: report Olympics, climate on the agenda for Biden meeting with Japanese PMBoehner on Afghanistan: 'It's time to pull out the troops'MORE acted upon an impression he developed more than a decade earlier when he visited Afghanistan shortly before he took the oath of office as vice president of the United States. As he explained in his speech announcing the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 20 years after the attacks on New York and the Pentagon, “What I saw on that trip reinforced my conviction that only the Afghans have the right and responsibility to lead their country, and that more and endless American military force could not create or sustain a durable Afghan government.”