U.S. President Joe Biden (Photo: UPI-Yonhap)
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President Joe Biden has praised the airlift of American citizens from Afghanistan as an extraordinary success.
In an address from the White House, Biden insisted the U.S. had achieved everything it set out to do in the country.
But the Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, said the country was now less safe and Americans were stranded behind enemy lines.
The BBC's Peter Bowes assesses Biden's speech.
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This was a president on the defensive.
Widely criticized for the way and apparent haste with which America withdrew from Afghanistan, leaving some U.S. citizens behind, Mr. Biden insisted he was right to end the forever war and not to extend what he called "the forever exit."
He laid the blame in part to Donald Trump for doing a deal with the Taliban but also with Afghan government forces.
He said he refused to send another generation of America's sons and daughters to fight a war.
It was, he said, time to look to the future after 20 years of pain and sacrifice.
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