President Joe Biden offered his strongest defence yet for his administration’s management of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan on Tuesday, hours after the last US planes left the country.
In a national address from the White House marking the end of the US occupation of Afghanistan, Mr Biden explained that he was not ready to let a “forever war” turn into a “forever exit”, while arguing that the US managed to extract most Americans from the country before the final flights departed.
“I was not going to extend this forever war, and I was not extending a forever exit,” the president declared.
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