Colin Powell on Afghanistan: ‘We did everything we could’

Former Foreign Minister Colin PowellColin Luther Powell Is impartial effectiveness still possible? Fauci donates personal COVID-19 virus model to Smithsonian To unite America, Biden administration needs to support MORE hatred said Tuesday President BidenJoe BidenTrump: McConnell ‘helpless’ to prevent Biden from suing Biden, first lady sends ‘warmest greetings’ to Muslims for Ramadan. The case for child care reform MOREThe decision to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by September was ‘too late’, even though Biden received bilateral criticism over the announcement.

“I would not say enough is enough,” Powell told The Washington Post. ‘I would say we did everything we could. … What are those troops being told they are there for? It’s time to end it. ”

Powell, a retired general who also served as National Security Adviser and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was at the head of the State Department of the Bush administration during the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the ensuing start of the war in Afghanistan.

In his interview with the Post, he also mentions how the Soviet Union withdrew its troops from Afghanistan in 1989, saying that they did it “in the same way.”

“They got tired and went back to the house. How long did anyone remember that?” he asked.

Powell was one of the Republicans who supported Biden during his campaign last year against the thenPresident TrumpDonald Trump: Trump: McConnell ‘helpless’ to stop Biden from granting court Romney on NRSC to award Trump: Not ‘my preference’. McConnell sidesteps Trump and calls him ‘dumb son of’ nb – ‘MORE, including at the Democratic National Convention.

Biden is expected to announce on Wednesday that he will return all US troops from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of 9/11 later this year.

The news led to a setback from legislators in both parties.

“To withdraw US forces exactly from Afghanistan is a serious mistake. It is a retreat in the face of an enemy that has not yet been defeated and the US leadership has been ousted,” Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump: McConnell ‘helpless’ to stop Biden from suing Senate opens GOP by opening up to McConnell’s figures as Trump and calling him ‘dumb son of a nb —-‘ MORE (R-Ky.) Said from the Senate floor.