KABUL (Pajhwok): President Joe Biden has stoutly defended his decisions to withdraw US from Afghanistan and suspend his re-election bid.
In his fourth and final address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, he said the decision to exit Afghanistan was hard but necessary.
Fox News quoted Biden as telling leaders and representatives from 134 countries the world was in a crisis and uncertainty when he was elected president.
He recalled: “We were attacked on 9/11 by Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. We brought him (to) justice. Then I came to the presidency in another moment of crisis and uncertainty.”
The US leader added: “I believed America had to look forward — new challenges, new threats, new opportunities were in front of us.”
Biden went on to comment the US needed to put an end to the war that began on 9/11. “I came to office as president, with Afghanistan to replace Vietnam as America's longest war.”
The president said he was determined to end the conflict and he did that. He called the exit from Afghanistan a hard but the right decision.
By the same token, he also defended his move to suspend his 2024 re-election campaign. “Being president has been the honor of my life. There is so much more I want to get done.”
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