Biden defends Afghanistan withdrawal, says he opposed invasion 'from the beginning'
by Katherine Doyle, White House Reporter |
| December 13, 2021 02:30 PM
President Joe Biden defended his withdrawal from Afghanistan, arguing that the deaths of 13 service members in the final days of the U.S. exit were inevitable under the circumstances.
“Everybody says, ‘You could’ve gotten out without anybody being hurt.’ No one’s come up with a way to ever indicate to me how that happens,” Biden said in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning during a brief appearance in a profile of first lady Jill Biden. An August suicide attack outside the Kabul airport killed 13 U.S. service members and some 170 Afghans.
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Asked whether he was “willing to lose his presidency” by “sticking with” his plan to withdraw, Biden said he had opposed the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan “from the beginning.”
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