We cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan,

hoping to create ideal conditions for the withdrawal and expecting a different result.

I'm now the fourth United States president to preside over American true presence in Afghanistan, two Republicans, two Democrats.

I will not pass this responsibility onto a fifth.

Declaring U.S. military objectives in Afghanistan, quote, achieved, President Biden announces when

U.S. troops there will come home.

The question is, where does this leave peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government?

Plus, the police officer who shot and killed Dante Wright arrested and charged with manslaughter.

The question is, what will we learn when she makes her first court appearance this afternoon?

And reports the Biden administration is set to announce new sanctions on Russia for a series of offenses against the U.S.

The question is, will the sanctions be something the Putin regime can actually feel?

It's way too early for this.

Thank you. It's way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that thanks American veterans for their service today.

I am Casey Hunt on this Thursday, April 15th.

We'll start with the news. After 20 years of U.S.

military involvement in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden announced yesterday that it's, quote,

time for American troops to come home. As Politico notes, the military spent more than a decade

urging three different American presidents to stay in Afghanistan. With President Joe Biden's

decision this week to withdraw all U.S. forces by September 11th, they finally lost the battle.

Biden made the announcement from the treaty room, the same location where President George

W. Bush announced a month after 9-11 that strikes against al-Qaeda had begun.

We went to Afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago.

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