WASHINGTON — The United States says its mission to get Americans out of Afghanistan will continue after Monday’s withdrawal.
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Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national security adviser, says it’s just that the evacuation effort “has shifted from a military mission to a diplomatic mission.” He cited “considerable leverage” the U.S. has over the Taliban to get out any remaining Americans — a number that U.S. official have said is under 200.
Sullivan says the U.S. intends to continue sending health, food and other forms of humanitarian aid to the Afghan people. He says that other forms of aid, including economic and developmental, would depend on Taliban actions and adherence to publicly stated commitments.
American forces helped evacuate over 120,000 U.S. citizens, foreigners and Afghans after the Taliban regained control of the country, according to the White House. Coalition forces also evacuated their citizens and Afghans. But foreign nations and the U.S. government acknowledged they didn’t evacuate all who wanted to go.
It wasn’t even really going on before we completely pulled out. This administration is a joke. They are destroying this country and the world
I’m really souring on Biden. Why are we spending billions and billions on our defense when we just cut and run in such an incompetent and dishonorable way?? And what’s with the Sept. 1 deadline?? Does Biden have such a short memory on why we went into Afghanistan in the first place? Remember 9/11???
Trump killed the immigration program that could let more Afghans in, since they are Muslim. A shul I know was bringing Afghan refugees in, on a humanitarian basis and it became almost impossible to save them. So all of a sudden the trumpoids care about Muslim refugees?