Former Secretary of State Colin Powell
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“I wouldn’t say that’s enough,” Powell told the Washington Post. “I would say we have done everything we can. … What are those troops called for? It’s time to dump her and move on. “
Powell, a retired general who has also been a national security adviser and chairman of the joint chief of staff, he was at the head of the State Department of the Bush administration during the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent start of the war in Afghanistan.
In his interview with the Post, he also mentioned how the Soviet Union withdrew its troops from Afghanistan in 1989, saying that “they did it the same way.”
“They got tired and went home. How long did anyone remember it?” he asked.
Powell was one of the Republicans who supported Biden during his campaign against him last yearPresident Trump
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Biden is expected to announce on Wednesday that he will bring all U.S. troops home from Afghanistan for the twentieth anniversary of September 11 later this year.
The news provoked the backlash of lawmakers on both sides.
“The hasty withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan is a serious mistake. It is a withdrawal in the face of an enemy that has not yet been defeated and the abdication of the American leadership,” minority leader. Mitch McConnell
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