{"id":5286,"date":"2021-06-01T17:49:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T17:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5286"},"modified":"2021-06-01T17:49:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T17:49:52","slug":"the-us-military-is-finally-withdrawing-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5286","title":{"rendered":"The US military is finally withdrawing from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The US has formally begun its withdrawal from Afghanistan after almost 20 years in the country, Army Gen. Austin Miller confirmed on Sunday. The news comes less than two weeks after President Joe Biden announced<\/a> that all US troops would be out of the country by September 11, 2021 \u2014 a significant achievement that eluded his predecessors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the New York Times<\/a>, Miller, the top commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, told reporters at a press conference in Kabul on Sunday that he had received his orders, and the US would begin \u201ctransitioning bases and equipment to the Afghan security forces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll of our forces are now preparing to retrograde,\u201d Miller said, according to a CNN report<\/a> of the same press conference. \u201cOfficially, the notification date will be the first of May, but at the same time, as we start taking local actions, we have already begun that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, the Trump administration had set May 1 as the deadline for withdrawing all US troops from the country as part of a deal struck with the Taliban<\/a> in February 2020, but as of this month, the US had about 3,500 troops<\/a> still in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Vox\u2019s Alex Ward reported earlier this month, Biden inherited that promise, and essentially chose to extend the timeline for removal, but without the Taliban\u2019s explicit approval<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“\u201cWar in Afghanistan was never meant to be a multi-generational undertaking,\u201d Biden said. \u201cWe were attacked. We went to war with clear goals. We achieved those objectives. Bin Laden is dead, and al Qaeda is degraded … in Afghanistan. And it\u2019s time to end the forever war.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/4\/25\/22402539\/afghanistan-military-withdrawal-final-biden-september-11th<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The US has formally begun its withdrawal from Afghanistan after almost 20 years in the country, Army Gen. Austin Miller confirmed on Sunday. The news comes less than two weeks after President Joe Biden announced that all US troops would be out of the country by September 11, 2021 \u2014 a significant achievement that eluded his predecessors.<\/p>\n

According to the New York Times, Miller, the top commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, told reporters at a press conference in Kabul on Sunday that he had received his orders, and the US would begin \u201ctransitioning bases and equipment to the Afghan security forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of our forces are now preparing to retrograde,\u201d Miller said, according to a CNN report of the same press conference. \u201cOfficially, the notification date will be the first of May, but at the same time, as we start taking local actions, we have already begun that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previously, the Trump administration had set May 1 as the deadline for withdrawing all US troops from the country as part of a deal struck with the Taliban in February 2020, but as of this month, the US had about 3,500 troops still in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

As Vox\u2019s Alex Ward reported earlier this month, Biden inherited that promise, and essentially chose to extend the timeline for removal, but without the Taliban\u2019s explicit approval.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“\u201cWar in Afghanistan was never meant to be a multi-generational undertaking,\u201d Biden said. \u201cWe were attacked. We went to war with clear goals. We achieved those objectives. Bin Laden is dead, and al Qaeda is degraded … in Afghanistan. And it\u2019s time to end the forever war.\u201d”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[435,552,272,355,314,259,108,619,158],"class_list":["post-5286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-afghanistan","tag-conflict","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-military","tag-terrorism","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5287,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions\/5287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}