White House: No good way to end the wars??
“President Biden was not prepared to usher in a third decade of war and put U.S. troops in harm’s way, fighting and dying, to try to hold Afghanistan together when its own armed forces would not fight to hold it together.”
Jon Finer, Deputy National Security Advisor: “The U.S. faces terrorist threats from a number of countries around the world… We have been able to and continue to address the threats in those countries without significant numbers of U.S. forces present on the ground.”