Joseph Biden actually said...

"I will not pass this responsibility on to a fifth president."

"If anything, the developments of the past week reinforced that ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision."

"American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves."

"Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight."