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Afghanistan: Biden Sends 3,000 Troops to Evacuate U.S. Embassy in Kabul
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August 12, 2021
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1:24Now PlayingPresident Joe Biden is sending about 3,000 U.S. troops to Kabul to help evacuate more diplomats from the U.S. embassy, underscoring just how badly the U.S. has been caught off-guard by the speed of the Taliban’s advance across Afghanistan as American forces withdraw.
The State Department is drawing down staff to a “core diplomatic presence,” but the embassy remains open and will continue its work, State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a briefing Thursday. The U.S. currently has about 4,200 people at its embassy, with a sizable portion of them American citizens.
“This is not abandonment, this is not an evacuation, this is not a wholesale withdrawal,” Price told a briefing. “We are in no way abandoning the people of Afghanistan. Far from it.”
But the move marks a further pullback of U.S. diplomats as the Biden administration says it’s determined to proceed with a plan to pull out almost all U.S. troops by Aug. 31. It’s a stark reflection of how ineffective Afghanistan’s government and its 300,000 troops have been in standing up to the Taliban, which has made swift and easy gains as U.S. troops withdrew. And it suggests that the administration thinks that Kabul, the heavily secured capital, might soon fall to the Taliban.
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