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Several were able to hold onto the plane before reportedly falling to their deaths shortly after takeoff.WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Monday said he made the right call to pull American troops out of Afghanistan even though he said the Taliban's swift seizure of Kabul unfolded faster than expected.Biden said Afghan officials – including former President Ashraf Ghani – had assured him Afghan forces would fight the insurgents.
He also said he followed through on a withdrawal plan developed during the administration of former President Donald Trump. Afghan security forces dissolved as the Taliban raced to Kabul in a matter to days. Protesters blocked access to the airport as the U.S. scrambled to get its people out of the country.
McConnell said the U.S. has"abandoned the women and children of Afghanistan to these barbarians," and left behind thousands of Afghan allies."We turned our backs on our friends and left the country in chaos," said the Senate's top Republican. In a brief statement, Trump said"it's not that we left Afghanistan. It's the grossly incompetent way we left!"
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