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Biden says US military operation in Afghanistan will end August 31
US President Joe Biden says the country s military mission in Afghanistan will conclude on August 31 with speed is safety as he seeks to end the nearly 20-year war. We did not go to Afghanistan to nation build, Mr Biden said in a speech to update his administration s ongoing efforts to wind down the US war. Afghan leaders have to come together and drive toward a future.
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President Joe Biden says the US war in Afghanistan will end on August 31.(Demetrius Freeman/Getty)
Mr Biden also amplified the justification of his decision to end US military operations even as the Taliban make rapid advances in significant swaths of the country. The administration in recent days has repeatedly sought to frame ending the conflict as a decision that Mr Biden made after concluding it s an unwinnable war and one that does not have a military solution.
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President Biden has announced that all remaining American troops will leave Afghanistan by September 11, exactly 20 years after the attack on the World Trade Centre that started it all. The 750 British soldiers still in the country will follow.
So job done, then? I m afraid not. The Taliban crazed extremists against whom Western troops have been fighting for nearly two decades exercise control or influence over at least half of Afghanistan.
They have just pulled out of peace talks. They are apparently preparing to fight a full-scale civil war against an often corrupt and ineffectual Afghan government, which will be deprived of U.S. and British know-how.