Leaving Afghanistan: America Out!

Remaining U.S. troops set to leave Afghanistan

The Biden White House has made it clear that it will be pulling remaining U.S. military troops out of Afghanistan, before its scheduled date of September 11, 2021.

The administration doesn’t find it necessary to keep troops there any further.

US troops in Afghanistan. Source: History Collection

Read: US Afghan commander to step down.

In a statement, the president cites that the military came “to do what it intended to do”, which was to go after Osama bin Laden after it was believed al Qaeda attacked the United States in 2001. The attack took down New York’s World Trade Center (killing thousands), and the U.S. Pentagon just outside of Washington, D.C. during the George Bush administration.

The U.S. military, under the direction of the Obama administration, waged a war to infiltrate the bin Laden regime "to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda."

In 2011, America was informed that Osama bin Laden had been, in fact, killed.

Ten years later, with the so-called head of the terrorist al Qaeda group no more, U.S. troops will retreat, returning to the U.S., a move that leaves some law makers to ponder if it is the right thing to do.

Read: Leaving Afghanistan may not be the right thing to do right now.

The region still grapples with

“We don’t have enough troops there to change the tide and make some dramatic difference, so if we are not going to do that, why keep the troops that are there and put them at risk Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed (D-RI) in April of this year.

Along those same lines, the president asked. “How many more, how many thousands of American sons and daughters are you willing to risk?”, he asked. “How long would you have them stay?”

The war against Afghanistan is said to be the longest generational fought war in history.

“Already we have members of our military whose parents fought in Afghanistan twenty years ago.”

The occupation by U.S. troops is planned to end by August 31, 2021.

 

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