Joe Biden justifies chaos caused by US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan
August 19, 2021, 3:39 am

Joe Biden justifies chaos caused by US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan

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According to the Sky News, US President Joe Biden has said there was no way for troops to pull out from Afghanistan "without chaos ensuing".

The Sky News reported that the withdrawal of US troops was agreed under Mr Biden's predecessor Donald Trump in last year's controversial "peace deal" with the Taliban, but it was implemented under Mr Biden's presidency and was expected to be complete by the end of this month.

It should be noted that the withdrawal allowed the Taliban to advance rapidly through the country, taking all major cities - including the capital Kabul - by mid-August.

According to the Sky News, Mr Biden told ABC News that there was nothing his administration could have done to avoid the resulting chaos, as thousands of Afghans try desperately to escape the incoming regime.

Mr Biden said: "The idea that, somehow, there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don't know how that happens."

Mr Biden said the US would do "everything in our power" to get its citizens out before the end-of-month deadline, adding: "we're gonna stay until we get them all out".

The Sky News said, many of the Afghans will have worked as interpreters for US troops during the 20-year conflict and will be especially fearful of a vengeful Taliban.

in his ABC interview, Mr Biden said: "When you had the government of Afghanistan, the leader of that government, get in a plane and taking off and going to another country, when you saw the significant collapse of the Afghan troops we had trained - up to 300,000 of them - just leaving their equipment and and and taking off.

"That was... that's what happened. That's simply what happened."

Source: skynews

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