Joe Biden Defends Afghanistan Pullout On 9/11 Anniversary

Joe Biden said the US forces had achieved their central mission when a special forces team killed Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011 in Pakistan.

President Joe Biden, speaking unexpectedly during a visit to the Pennsylvania site of one of the 9/11 plane crashes, again defended the widely criticized withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying the US could not "invade" every country where Al-Qaeda is present. "Could Al-Qaeda come back (in Afghanistan)?" he asked in an exchange with reporters outside a Shanksville fire station. "Yeah. But guess what, it's already back other places." "What's the strategy? Every place where Al-Qaeda is, we're going to invade and have troops stay in? C'mon." Biden said it had always been a mistake to think Afghanistan could be meaningfully united.