President Biden on Monday He spoke for the last time From the State Department on the state of U.S. foreign policy and national security following his four-year term, which is set to end in one week when President-elect Donald Trump once again assumes the high office.
Biden did not specifically address the incoming president or mention his name, but he referenced the previous and incoming Trump administration and noted that he leaves a “strong hand to play.”
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US President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the State Department in Washington on January 13, 2025. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein – Reuters.
The president listed a number of major countries of paramount geopolitical importance to US national security, but also pointed to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan – which was among the steps the US has taken. The most criticized president Policy decisions that resulted in the deaths of 13 US service members and approximately 140 Afghan civilians, ISIS-K launched an attack on evacuees at Abiy Gate.
“(I am) the first president in decades not to leave the war in Afghanistan to his successor,” Biden said.
The president noted the assassination of the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden, in 2011 during the Obama administration, and said he estimated that large numbers of US troops were no longer needed when he took office.
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He added: “So when I took office, I had a choice – but I saw no reason to keep thousands of soldiers in Afghanistan.” “In my view, it is time to end the war and bring our troops home, and we have done that.”
This is a developing story.
