Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday criticized Biden’s handling of the end of the war and noted that the country has spiraled downward under renewed Taliban rule since the U.S.
He also vowed that the nation will “never fail to meet the sacred obligation to you to properly prepare and equip those that we send into harm’s way and care for those and their families when they come home - and to never, ever, ever forget.” service members were killed and more than 20,000 were wounded over the course of the nearly 20-year war, according to the Pentagon. troops who served in Afghanistan as well as their families. veterans assisting ongoing efforts to resettle in the United States Afghans who helped the war effort.īiden on Sunday said an “incredible debt” was owed to the U.S. troops killed in the bombing at the Kabul airport and spoke by phone with U.S. He issued a statement in honor of the 13 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan late last month in low-key fashion. cargo planes departed over the Hindu Kush.īiden marked the one-year anniversary of the U.S. troops at Kabul’s airport, and thousands of desperate Afghans gathered in hopes of escape before the final U.S. But the war concluded chaotically in August 2021, when the U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed, a grisly bombing killed 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops from the country’s longest conflict. In ending the Afghanistan war, the Democratic president followed through on a campaign pledge to bring home U.S. The president was joined by family members of the fallen, first responders who had been at the Pentagon on the day of the attack, as well as Defense Department leadership for the annual moment of tribute carried out in New York City, the Pentagon and Somerset County, Pennsylvania. “Our commitment to preventing another attack on the United States is without end.” “We will never forget, we will never give up,” Biden said. had killed Ayman al-Zawahri, the al-Qaida leader who helped plot the Sept.
and allies launched in response to the terror attacks.īiden noted that even after the United States left Afghanistan that his administration continues to pursue those responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Sunday’s ceremony occurred a little more than a year after Biden ended the long and costly war in Afghanistan that the U.S. 11 attacks, taking part in a somber wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon held under a steady rain and paying tribute to “extraordinary Americans” who gave their lives on one of the nation’s darkest days. WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden marked the 21st anniversary of the Sept.
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