President Joe Biden Since the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan, the United States has withdrawn its troops after 20 years of prolonged war. This will be the country’s first speech.
Biden defended his decision to leave Afghanistan in a statement on Saturday, saying that staying in the country would make no difference. However, he was criticized for not having a direct conversation with the Americans during the chaotic retreat. The evacuated embassy personnel evacuated and the Afghans risked their lives to flee the country.
To shorten the time at Camp David, Biden is scheduled to return to the White House on Monday afternoon. His address is scheduled to be published at 3:45 EST and is expected to be published in the East Room.
The president’s speech will be broadcast at the White House YouTube Channel and C-spanWebsite, and C-Span TV channel. Other networks may suspend reporting of their plans to report on the president.
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Former president Donald Trump Has been a ruthless critic of Biden’s exit strategy, but the president and other White House officials accused Trump of giving his successor few options.
Trump and the Taliban negotiated to withdraw troops on May 1. Biden said on Saturday that the few troops remaining in Afghanistan were in “danger.” This allows Biden to “execute in accordance with the agreement” or send more American troops to the civil war in Afghanistan. Biden, the fourth president to preside over the war in Afghanistan, said he refused to pass it on to his successor.
Biden and his national security adviser, Jack Sullivan, To transfer part of the responsibility for the rise of the Taliban to the Afghan people. After helping to train the Afghan army, Sullivan told Today that the United States cannot give the Afghan army the “will” to fight for Kabul and their country.
Sullivan added that he did not foresee that the Afghan army would not launch an important battle for Kabul, defending Biden’s assertion that the fall of Kabul was not “inevitable”. However, in June, lawmakers expressed major concerns about the fate of Afghans and urged the Biden administration to speed up the process of evacuation of thousands of Afghan allies who helped the United States during the war.
Although the situation in Afghanistan made Biden the target of strong criticism, Sullivan denied that this was the “worst case scenario.”
“I think the worst situation for the United States is that when the Afghan army is not preparing for the civil war in Afghanistan, we have added thousands of troops to fight and die in the civil war in Afghanistan,” Sullivan said.
