Joe Biden said on Friday that he could not guarantee “the final outcome” of the evacuation operation in Kabul, one of the “most difficult in history” at the end of a war of twenty years. years in Afghanistan. “This evacuation mission is dangerous. It involves risks for our armed forces and is carried out under difficult conditions, ”said the American president during a speech at the White House, surrounded by his vice-president Kamala Harris, his foreign minister Antony Blinken, the Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, and his senior security adviser Jake Sullivan. “I cannot promise what the final outcome will be”
“But as commander-in-chief, I can assure you that I will mobilize all possible means,” he promised. Only the United States is “capable” of carrying out such an operation, among the “most difficult in history”, “on the other side of the world with such precision”, affirmed the American president, announcing that the United States had evacuated 13,000 people from Afghanistan since August 14 and the takeover of the Taliban.
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It would even be 18,000 people since July, with thousands more evacuated on private flights “implemented by the US government.” The president assured that his country was committed to evacuating all Afghans who helped the United States in their operations in Afghanistan during the war. Joe Biden has come under fire for the chaotic evacuation scenes in Kabul and the accounts of Afghan departing candidates prevented from reaching the airport by Taliban controls.
We “are in constant contact with the Taliban, and we are working to ensure that civilians have safe access to the airport,” said the US president. He also assured that this chaotic withdrawal did not affect the credibility of the United States on the international scene. Our allies in the world “do not question our credibility”, assured the American president. “I spoke to our NATO allies,” he added. “In fact it is the opposite”.