We Have Achieved Our Objectives: Joe Biden's Statement

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has announced that the longest war involving the U.S. will conclude on August 31, when the last group of American soldiers returns home from Afghanistan, according to CBS News, referencing Biden's speech from the White House.

“I will not send another generation of Americans to war in Afghanistan without a reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome. The United States cannot afford to remain tethered to a politics that was formulated in a world that no longer exists,” Biden stated.

He mentioned that the current security situation in Afghanistan only confirms that U.S. presence there for another year will not resolve any issues but would rather lead to an endless presence of American troops. Biden added that the United States has achieved its objectives in Afghanistan, which were to eliminate the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda and its leader Osama bin Laden.

“We have achieved the objectives we set out. We did not come to Afghanistan to nation-build; that is the right and responsibility of the Afghan people to determine their future and how they wish to govern their country,” concluded the U.S. president.

According to an official statement from the U.S. armed forces, Osama bin Laden was killed on the morning of May 2, 2011, during a special operation conducted by American soldiers in Abbottabad, located 100 kilometers from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.