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Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said he would make no apologies for ending the war in Afghanistanwhich killed 13 Americans and was led by the Taliban, during an interview with The New York Times on the eve of the departure of the Biden administration.
“I am not at all sure that the election affected any one or even a set of foreign policy issues. Most elections do not. But leaving that aside: Americans don’t want us to be in conflict. They don’t want to We’ve gone through 20 years when we had hundreds of thousands of Americans deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, of course, when President Biden was vice president “As president, he ended the longest war in our history, in Afghanistan,” he said he, answering a question about the election.
The New York Times spoke with Blinken ahead of his departure from the White House and said Americans were skeptical of Biden’s foreign policy because of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan that left more than a dozen American servicemen died and led to the Taliban regaining control. The interviewer asked how the “failure” in Afghanistan had damaged America’s credibility.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken speaks before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
“First, I make no apologies for ending America’s longest war. I think this is a landmark achievement for the president. The fact that we won’t have another generation of Americans fighting and dying in Afghanistan is an important achievement in Afghanistan. Blinken replied.
The Times responded by noting that the Taliban had made the situation of women in the country much more difficult.
The interviewer said, “In every possible way, the way it was done and the state in which Afghanistan was left could not have been what the United States wanted.”
“There was never an easy way out of the 20-year war. I think the question was what were we going to do moving forward after the troop withdrawal. We also needed to learn lessons from Afghanistan itself,” added Blinken.
The Biden administration suffered a setback after a chaotic exit. It’s even been reported that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan offered to resign about the decision, David Ignatius of The Washington Post reports.
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Sullivan was also reportedly concerned about leaving, but ultimately said it would be difficult no matter what they did.
“You can’t end a war like Afghanistan, where you’ve created addiction and pathology, without the end being complex and complicated,” Sullivan told a Post columnist. “The choice was to leave, and it wasn’t going to be easy, or to stay forever.”
He added that “leaving Kabul freed (the United States) to deal with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a way that would not have been possible if we had stayed.”
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Ignatius reported that the withdrawal from Afghanistan “broke the early courtesies” of the Biden administration’s national security team and created tension between Sullivan and Blinken.
