Biden Will Withdraw From Afghanistan by 9/11 Anniversary
President Biden will announce the U.S. will withdraw from Afghanistan in time for the 20th anniversary of 9/11, knowledgeable sources told The Daily Beast.
Biden is expected to concede that the U.S. will not meet a deadline, negotiated with the Taliban last year, for troops to leave by May 1. Instead, as U.S. diplomats attempt to cobble together a peace process between the Taliban and the U.S.-backed Afghan government, his administration is gambling that the Taliban will accept a delay of several months instead of returning to full-blown attacks on the approximately 3,500 remaining U.S. forces.
Laurel Miller, a former State Department special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, expected the Taliban to accept the delay, provided they see real evidence of U.S. withdrawal coalesce imminently.