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Donald Trump Objects to 9/11 as Date of Afghanistan Withdrawal, Calls for Earlier Exit

Posted on AllSides April 18th, 2021
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Former President Donald Trump objected to September 11 of this year as the date President Joe Biden has set to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, ending the nation's longest war.

"I wish Joe Biden wouldn't use September 11th as the date to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan," Trump said in a statement released Sunday.

The U.S. entered Afghanistan after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001. American troops have remained in the country ever since and posed a decision-making challenge...

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