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Exclusive Interview with Donald J. Trump - Kash’s Corner

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Administration of Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 2021

Remarks on the Situation in Afghanistan

August 16, 2021

Good afternoon.

I want to speak today to the unfolding situation in Afghanistan the developments that have

taken place in the last week and the steps we're taking to address the rapidly evolving events.

My national security team and I have been closely monitoring the situation on the ground in

Afghanistan and moving quickly to execute the plans we had put in place to respond to every

constituency, including—and contingency—including the rapid collapse we're seeing now.

I'll speak more in a moment about the specific steps we're taking, but I want to remind

everyone how we got here and what America's interests are in Afghanistan.

We went to Afghanistan almost 20 years ago with clear goals: get those who attacked us on

September 11, 2001, and make sure Al Qaida could not use Afghanistan as a base from which to

attack us again. We did that. We severely degraded Al Qaida in Afghanistan. We never gave up

the hunt for Usama bin Laden, and we got him. That was a decade ago.

Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation building. It was never

supposed to be creating a unified, centralized democracy. Our only vital national interest in

Afghanistan remains today what it has always been: preventing and—a terrorist attack on

American homeland.

I've argued for many years that our mission should be narrowly focused on counterterrorism,

not counterinsurgency or nation building. That's why I opposed the surge when it was proposed in

2009 when I was Vice President.

And that's why, as President, I am adamant that we focus on the threats we face today in

2021, not yesterday's threats. Today, the terrorist threat has metastasized well beyond

Afghanistan: al-Shabaab in Somalia, Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Nusra in Syria, ISIS

attempting to create a caliphate in Syria and Iraq and establishing affiliates in multiple countries

in Africa and Asia. These threats warrant our attention and our resources.

We conduct effective counterterrorism missions against terrorist groups in multiple countries

where we don't have permanent military presence. If necessary, we'll do the same in Afghanistan.

We've developed counterterrorism over-the-horizon capability that will allow us to keep our eyes

firmly fixed on any direct threats to the United States in the region and to act quickly and

decisively if needed.

When I came into office, I inherited a deal that President Trump negotiated with the Taliban.

Under his agreement, U.S. forces would be out of Afghanistan by May 1, 2021, just a little over 3

months after I took office.

U.S. forces had already drawn down during the Trump administration from roughly 15,500

American forces to 2,500 troops in country, and the Taliban was at its strongest militarily since

1. The choice I had to make, as your President, was either to follow through on that agreement

or be prepared to go back to fighting the Taliban in the middle of the spring fighting season.

There would have been no cease-fire after May 1. There was no agreement protecting our

forces after May 1. There was no status quo of stability without American casualties after May 1. ..

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.. There was only the cold reality of either following through on the agreement to withdraw our

forces or escalating the conflict and sending thousands more American troops back into combat in

Afghanistan, lurching into the third decade of conflict.

I stand squarely behind my decision. After 20 years, I've learned the hard way that there was

never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces. That's why we were still there. We were clear eyed

about the risks. We planned for every contingency.

But I always promised the American people that I will be straight with you. The truth is:

This did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated.

So what's happened? Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan

military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight. If anything, the developments of the past

week reinforced that ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision.

American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan

forces are not willing to fight for themselves. We spent over a trillion dollars. We trained and

equipped an Afghan military force of some 300,000 strong, incredibly well equipped, a force

larger in size than the militaries of many of our NATO allies.

And we gave them every tool they could need. We paid their salaries, provided for the

maintenance of their air force, something the Taliban doesn't have. Taliban does not have an air

force. We've provided close air support. We gave them every chance to determine their own

future. What we could not provide them was the will to fight for that future.

There's some very brave and capable Afghan special forces units and soldiers, but if

Afghanistan is unable to mount any real resistance to the Taliban now, there is no chance that 1

year—1 more year, 5 more years, or 20 more years—of U.S. military boots on the ground would

have made any difference.

And here's what I believe to my core: It is wrong to order American troops to step up when

Afghanistan's own armed forces would not. If the political leaders of Afghanistan were unable to

come together for the good of their people, unable to negotiate for the future of their country

when the chips were down, they would never have done so while U.S. troops remained in

Afghanistan bearing the brunt of the fighting for them.

And our true strategic competitors—China and Russia—would love nothing more than the

United States to continue to funnel billions of dollars in resources and attention into stabilizing

Afghanistan indefinitely.

When I hosted President Ghani and Chairman Abdullah at the White House in June and

again when I spoke by phone to Ghani in July, we had very frank conversations. We talked about

how Afghanistan should prepare to fight their civil wars after the U.S. military departed, to clean

up the corruption in government so the government could function for the Afghan people. We

talked extensively about the need for Afghan leaders to unite politically. They failed to do any of

that.

I also urged them to engage in diplomacy, to seek a political settlement with the Taliban.

This advice was flatly refused. Mr. Ghani insisted the Afghan forces would fight, but obviously,

he was wrong.

So I am left again to ask of those who argue that we should stay: How many more

generations of America's daughters and sons would you have me send to fight Afghans—

Afghanistan's civil war when Afghan troops will not? How many more lives—American lives—

is it worth? How many endless rows of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery? ..

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I'm clear on my answer: I will not repeat the mistakes we've made in the past: the mistake of

staying and fighting indefinitely in a conflict that is not in the national interest of the United

States, of doubling down on a civil war in a foreign country, of attempting to remake a country

through the endless military deployments of U.S. forces. Those are the mistakes we cannot

continue to repeat, because we have significant vital interests in the world that we cannot afford

to ignore.

I also want to acknowledge how painful this is to so many of us. The scenes we're seeing in

Afghanistan, they're gut-wrenching, particularly for our veterans, our diplomats, humanitarian

workers, for anyone who has spent time on the ground working to support the Afghan people.

For those who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan and for Americans who have fought and

served in the country—serve our country in Afghanistan—this is deeply, deeply personal.

It is for me as well. I've worked on these issues as long as anyone. I've been throughout

Afghanistan during this war—while the war was going on—from Kabul to Kandahar to the Kunar

Valley. I've traveled there on four different occasions. I met with the people. I've spoken to the

leaders. I spent time with our troops. And I came to understand firsthand what was and was not

possible in Afghanistan.

So now we're focused on what is possible. We will continue to support the Afghan people.

We will lead with our diplomacy, our international influence, and our humanitarian aid. We'll

continue to push for regional diplomacy and engagement to prevent violence and instability.

We'll continue to speak out for the basic rights of the Afghan people—of women and girls—just

as we speak out all over the world.

I have been clear that human rights must be the center of our foreign policy, not the

periphery. But the way to do it is not through endless military deployments, it's with our

diplomacy, our economic tools, and rallying the world to join us.

Now, let me lay out the current mission in Afghanistan. I was asked to authorize—and I

did—6,000 U.S. troops to deploy to Afghanistan for the purpose of assisting in the departure of

U.S. and allied civilian personnel from Afghanistan and to evacuate our Afghan allies and

vulnerable Afghans to safety outside of Afghanistan.

Our troops are working to secure the airfield and to ensure continued operation of both the

civilian and military flights. We're taking over air traffic control. We have safely shut down our

Embassy and transferred our diplomats. Our diplomatic presence is now consolidated at the

airport as well.

Over the coming days, we intend to transport out thousands of American citizens who have

been living and working in Afghanistan. We'll also continue to support the safe departure of

civilian personnel—the civilian personnel of our allies—who are still serving in Afghanistan.

Operation Allies Refugee [Refuge],* which I announced back in July, has already moved

2,000 Afghans who are eligible for special immigration visas and their families to the United

States. In the coming days, the U.S. military will provide assistance to move more SIV-eligible

Afghans and their families out of Afghanistan.

We're also expanding refugee access to cover other vulnerable Afghans who worked for our

Embassy: U.S. nongovernmental agencies—or the U.S. nongovernmental organizations; and

Afghans who otherwise are at great risk; and U.S. news agencies.

I know that there are concerns about why we did not begin evacuating Afghans—civilians

sooner. Part of the answer is, some of the Afghans did not want to leave earlier, still hopeful for ..

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'On January 26, 2021, Janet Yellen was sworn in as the 78th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. An economist by training, she took office after almost fifty years in academia and public service. She is the first person in American history to have led the White House Council of Economic Advisors, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury Department. '

https://home.treasury.gov/about/general-information/officials/janet-yellen

'“We will have several more months of rapid inflation,” Yellen told Sara Eisen during a “Closing Bell” interview. “So I’m not saying that this is a one-month phenomenon. But I think over the medium term, we’ll see inflation decline back toward normal levels. But, of course, we have to keep a careful eye on it.” The consumer price index, which measures costs for a wide range of items, increased 5.4% in June, the fastest pace in nearly 13 years. Excluding food and energy, the gauge rose 4.5%, the fastest acceleration in nearly 30 years. Prices that goods and services producers receive for their products jumped 7.3%, a record for data going back to 2010.'

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