Addressing the nation by On the Afghan crisis, President Joe Biden acknowledged that the Taliban takeover was faster than expected — but insisted that he still «fully supports» his decision to withdraw US troops.
«I am not I will repeat the mistake we made in the past: the mistake of staying and endlessly fighting in a conflict that does not meet the national interests of the United States, doubling the scale of the civil war in a foreign country, trying to remake it through the endless deployment of the US military «Biden said.
While Biden said he was ultimately responsible for the situation in Afghanistan, he also blamed Afghan forces for the Taliban's rapid advance.
» We gave them everything opportunities to determine your future. [What] we could not provide them was the will to fight for this future, «he said.
» If Afghanistan cannot provide any real resistance to the Taliban now, there is no chance that else one year, another five years, or another 20 years of US hostilities will change something. ”
Biden also blamed his predecessor for the situation, saying that the agreement concluded by former President Donald Trump with the Taliban while he was in power, left him with only two options: to complete the US military mission or renew the conflict.
Biden has repeatedly pointed out that he is the fourth president to lead the presence of American troops in Afghanistan, and categorically insisted that he would not entrust this responsibility to the successor.
“It remains for me to ask again those who argued that we should stay, how many more generations of daughters and sons of America would you send to participate in the civil war in Afghanistan & lt; … & gt; ? How many more American lives are worth it? ”
