Biden defends withdrawal from Afghanistan: 'I was not extending a forever exit'

August 31, 2021

Biden defends withdrawal from Afghanistan: 'I was not extending a forever exit'
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President Joe Biden spoke to the nation Tuesday on the end of the war in Afghanistan, defending the chaotic withdrawal from Kabul a day after the last American military planes left the country, concluding the nation's longest war nearly 20 years after it began.