There you go again spreading fake news. Here's from the JUly 15, 2020 article I posted:
"If there is one thing Democrat candidate Joe Biden and President Donald Trump do agree on, it is the pull out of troops from Afghanistan. In an interview, Biden made it clear: America bears “zero responsibility’’ if the Taliban come back to power.
“Zero responsibility. The responsibility I have is to protect America’s national interest and not put our women and men in harm's way… that’s what I’d do as president,’’ Biden said in an interview to CBS when asked whether America bore responsibility if the Taliban came back to power.
His comments make it clear that Afghanistan policy will not change if there was a new president in the White House come November. “I hope this is a wake-up call to any Afghan leaders slow-rolling the #AfghanPeaceProcess in the hopes that the US might change direction and aim to stay in Afghanistan (if) Joe Biden wins in November,’’ tweeted Laurel Miller, Director of Asia Programme at the Crisis Group...."
"...Biden’s views on Afghanistan are not new. In 2010, Biden had lost his temper with Richard Holbrooke, the then special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, when the latter raised the point of making the rights of Afghan women a priority. Biden “erupted’’ Holbrooke, with the exchange recorded in the book Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century. "I am not sending my boy back there to risk his life on behalf of women’s rights, it just won’t work, that’s not what they’re there for,’’ he is quoted as saying. Biden wanted to get out of Afghanistan..."
This is really dishonest, Alan. You should stop doing this. The Biden quote -- a whole transcript of the Face the Nation interview -- is found easily enough with Google. Why did you go to a secondary source that twisted the interview?
Biden said:
"I gave you my- I gave the answer. Do I bear responsibility? Zero responsibility. The responsibility I have is to protect America's na- national self-interest and not put our women and men in harm's way to try to solve every single problem in the world by use of force. That's my responsibility as President. And that's what I'll do as president."
He didn't say he bears zero responsibility if the Taliban comes back to power -- he said we bear zero responsibility for solving all the world's problems by sending troops everywhere. In the same interview, he favored keeping some troops in Afghanistan, to prevent the Taliban or Al Queda from coming back to power.
"I think we should only have troops there to make sure that it's impossible for the Taliban and excuse me- for ISIS or al-Qaeda to reestablish a foothold there, to be able to go from Afghanistan to the United States to attack the United States. That requires a much smaller footprint.
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