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Joe Biden: “Let me ask those who want to us stay. How many more -- how many thousands more Americans, daughters and sons, are you…”

On the recordJuly 8, 2021
Let me ask those who want to us stay. How many more -- how many thousands more Americans, daughters and sons, are you willing to risk? How long would you have them stay? Already we have members of our military whose parents fought in Afghanistan 20 years ago. Would you send their children and their grandchildren as well? Would you send your own son or daughter? After 20 years, $1 trillion spent training and equipment, hundreds of thousands of Afghan national security and defense forces. 2,448 Americans killed. 20,722 more wounded. And untold thousands coming home with unseen trauma to their mental health. I will not send another generation of Americans to war in Afghanistan with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
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msnbc.com

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Biden addresses the risks of continuing military presence in Afghanistan and the impact on future generations.

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