A Year Later, Biden’s Promise of ‘al-Qaeda Gone’ from Afghanistan Looks Even Worse | National Review
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A year after the fall of Afghanistan, let us recall the words of President Joe Biden, August 20, 2021, explaining why it was safe to abandon the country:
What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point with al Qaeda gone? We went to Afghanistan for the express purpose of getting rid of al Qaeda in Afghanistan, as well as — as well as getting Osama bin Laden. And we did.
Now, the assertion that al-Qaeda was “gone” from Afghanistan was so obviously false that even sympathetic media and Biden’s own administration acknowledged at the time that it wasn’t so.
