INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
As the one-year anniversary of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan approaches, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said this
week that keeping American troops in Afghanistan &could not be justified& and no amount of American military presence led to victory after
20 years.It had to come to an end,& he said at the Aspen Security Forum held in Colorado this past week.Sullivan also said that President
Joe Biden is convinced he made the right call to end America&s involvement in the war but added it had been &horrible, painful& for him to
watch the images at Kabul International Airport in August last year.According to Politico, the conference ended with three takeaways: The
Biden administration still defends the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, admits the process to bring Afghans who served alongside U.
troops in that war stateside is &slow,& and Trump&s Pentagon chief called the former president a threat to democracy.Mark Esper, former
president Donald Trump&s secretary of defense, called his last boss &a threat to democracy& who is guilty of &dereliction of duty& following
the January 6 insurrection, Politico reported.What Trump did &is not in keeping with the best traditions of our country, let alone the Oval
Office,& he said.The post Biden administration continues to defend decision to withdraw troops first appeared on Ariana News.
