On April 14, 2021, President Joe Biden announced that, in keeping with an agreement former President Donald Trump had made with the Taliban, he would be removing all U.S. military forces from Afghanistan.
“We went to Afghanistan in 2001 to root out al Qaeda, to prevent future terrorist attacks against the United States planned from Afghanistan,” Biden said. “Our objective was clear. The cause was just.”
“I believed that our presence in Afghanistan should be focused on the reason we went in the first place: to ensure Afghanistan would not…
