Biden says the US will ‘hunt down’ Islamic State leaders responsible; IS claims responsibility for bomb explosions at Kabul airport’s Abbey gate; American forces bracing for further attacks
Time for a bit of background on Biden’s stance on Afghanistan, via former US president Barak Obama. Obama writes in A Promised Land, his memoir of the presidency, that Biden, then the vice president, was the only one out of the principal National Security Council members who had misgivings about deploying an extra 30,000 troops to Afghanistan in 2009: He had traveled to Kabul on my behalf during the transition, and what he saw and heard on the trip [...
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