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Afghanistan: Why the US is there, why it’s leaving, what will happen when it’s gone
President Joe Biden’s promise to remove US troops from Afghanistan by September 11 is his effort each of the last four presidents has had one to end America’s longest war.
The deadline for Biden’s withdrawal is significant September 11, 2021, is 20 years after the 9/11 terror attacks in New York, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania that led the US to target Afghanistan in the first place.
Those two decades have seen 2,300 US military lives lost, tens of thousands of US wounded, countless Afghan casualties and more than $2 trillion in taxpayer money spent.
How Congress is reacting to Biden s decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan
From CNN s Jeremy Herb Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images
President Biden s decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks prompted a split on Capitol Hill among both Republicans and Democrats, creating some strange bedfellows over what to do about America s longest war.
Many Republicans slammed the decision as premature, but other GOP lawmakers cheered US troops finally coming home. Most Democrats said they supported Biden s desire to finally wind down the longest war in US history, but some said they were concerned about losing hard-fought gains in Afghanistan.
CNN reporter in Kabul reacts to Biden’s announcement on US troop withdrawal
Analysis from CNN s Nick Paton Walsh in Kabul, Afghanistan
CNN s Nick Paton Walsh has been on the ground in Kabul, Afghanistan, reporting on events in the country ahead of President Biden s announcement to formally withdraw US troops by Sept. 11.
Here are his three takeaways from Biden s
Biden s decision is the product of decades of wrestling with the intractable problem of building Afghanistan back up. He personally feels the sacrifice of the 1% of Americans he reminded us serve in the military – of lives and years lost here in this war. It was a courageous decision, and a decision with no perfect outcome, but one he had accepted and had the responsibility to make. It likely won’t all go well, but it is the one thing the US has not tried here, and the reasons for staying – well, he admitted they were not good enough.
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