“If anything, the developments of the past week reinforced that ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision,” President Joe Biden said in a speech at the White House.
President Joe Biden on Monday defended his decision to pull American troops out of Afghanistan, as he drew flak for the fall of the Central Asian country’s government.
“American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves,” the president said. “I will not mislead the American people by claiming that just a little more time in Afghanistan will make all the difference, nor will I shrink from my share of responsibility for where we are today, and how we must move forward from here,” he said. “I am president of the United States of America, and the buck stops with me.”
Biden’s approval rating has dipped to a new low of 50%, while disapproval of the president’s performance has risen to a fresh high of 46%, according to a RealClearPolitics average of polls as of Monday. The White House also has been grappling with rising inflation and fresh COVID-19 problems due to the delta variant.
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