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. After consulting closely with our allies and

partners, with our military leaders and intelligence personnel with our

diplomats and our development experts, with the Congress and the Vice

President, as well as with Mr. Ghani and many others around the world, I concluded

that it's time to end America's longest war. It's time for American troops to

come home. That was President Biden announcing this week that he plans to

finally end the US war in Afghanistan on September 11th of this year, the 20th

anniversary of the terror attacks on the world trade towers and the Pentagon that

caused us to invade the country in the first place. Since then, the US is

decimated al-Qaeda and hunted down and killed Osama bin Laden. But more than

3,000 US troops remain in that country today, helping to support a corruption

written Afghan government that has made little progress against the Taliban

forces who once gave safe haven to the terror group that attacked us. Biden's

announcement was arguably the most decisive move yet by any American president to

end the era of forever wars that have bogged down the United States and cost

trillions of dollars for the past two decades. But it also may be the

riskiest decision he's made in office yet. Raising the prospect that television

viewers may end up seeing precisely the kinds of images they last saw at the end

of the Vietnam War when helicopters hovered over the roof of the US Embassy in

Saigon seeking to rescue the last remaining Americans before the Viet Cong

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