S-N Editorial

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before.

President Joe Biden announced a new plan last week that would completely withdraw American troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 of this year. The move kicks the can on former President Donald Trump’s plan, which called for all troops to be removed by May 1.

“War in Afghanistan was never meant to be a multigenerational undertaking,” Biden said during a speech delivered in the Treaty Room of the White House, where former President George W. Bush announced the start of the war in 2001. “It’s time to end the forever war.”

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