Blinken says he has 'no apologies' for ending America's 'longest war in Afghanistan'
Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan reportedly offered to resign over the chaotic withdrawal
By Hanna Panreck Fox News
Published January 5, 2025 4:00pm EST
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he wouldn't make any apologies for ending the war in Afghanistan, which left 13 Americans dead and the Taliban in charge, during an interview with The New York Times ahead of the Biden administration's exit.
"I’m not at all sure that the election turned on any one or even a collection of foreign-policy issues. Most elections don’t. But leaving that aside: Americans don’t want us in conflict. They don’t want us in war. We went through 20 years where we had hundreds of thousands of Americans deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. People were tired of that, understandably. Well, when President Biden was vice president, he presided over the end of our engagement in Iraq. As president, he ended the longest war in our history, Afghanistan," he said, responding to a question about the election.
The New York Times spoke to Blinken ahead of his exit from the White House and said that Americans were skeptical of Biden's foreign policy early on due to the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, which left more than a dozen American service members dead and led to the Taliban retaking control. The interviewer asked how the Afghanistan "failure" damaged America's credibility.
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