Blinken says of Afghanistan drawdown: 'The terrorism threat has moved'
Threats to the United States posed by al Qaeda from Afghanistan have been "significantly degraded," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday.
Blinken defended President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from American's longest war in an interview that aired Sunday on ABC's "This Week," arguing the main objectives of disrupting the terrorist group that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks had been achieved.
"We went to Afghanistan 20 years ago, and we went because we were attacked on 9/11, and we went to take on those who had attacked us on 9/11, and to make sure that Afghanistan would not again become a haven for terrorism directed at the United States or any of our allies and partners," Blinken said. "And we achieved the objectives that we set out to achieve."
"Al Qaeda has been significantly degraded. Its capacity to conduct an attack against the United States now from Afghanistan is not there," he added. "And of course, Osama bin Laden was brought to justice 10 years ago."
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