“If they attack our personnel, the U.S. presence will be swift and the response will be forceful. We will defend our people with devastating force, if necessary,” Biden said.
“If they attack our personnel, the U.S. presence will be swift and the response will be forceful. We will defend our people with devastating force, if necessary,” Biden said in a speech delivered from the White House that followed a weekend during which Afghan security forces melted away and Taliban fighters seized control of the country.
"So what's happened? Afghanistan's political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight,” he said, adding, “We gave them every chance to determine their own future. What we could not provide them was the will to fight for that future.” “The choice he made … to ultimately ask the Afghans to step up and fight for themselves — it is heartbreaking to see what is happening in Kabul, but the president had to make the best possible choice he could, and he stands by that decision,” Sullivan said. He explained that the White House believed that Kabul’s fall to the Taliban was “not inevitable.”
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