Former Secretary of State Colin Powell
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“I wouldn’t say that’s enough,” Powell told The Washington Post. “I would say we did everything we could. … Why are those bands being told I’m there? It’s time to dump her and move on. “
Powell, a retired general who also served as a national security adviser and chairman of the Chiefs of Staff, he was in charge of the Bush administration’s State Department during the September 11, 2001 attacks and the subsequent start of the war in Afghanistan.
In his interview with the Post, he also mentioned how the Soviet Union withdrew its troops from Afghanistan in 1989, saying that “they did the same.”
“They are tired and they went out and came home. How long has anyone remembered this?” he asked.
Powell was one of the Republicans who supported Biden during his campaign last year against …President Trump
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Biden is expected to announce on Wednesday that he will bring home all US troops in Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of September 11, later this year.
The news prompted parliamentarians on both sides to push.
“The hasty withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan is a grave mistake. It is a retreat in the face of an enemy that has not yet been defeated and the abdication of the US leadership,” the minority leader said. Mitch McConnell
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