US Officials Defend Leaving Americans Behind in Afghanistan

Taliban terrorists walk in front of a military airplane a day after the U.S. troop withdrawal from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 31, 2021. Stringer/Reuters

U.S. officials are defending the pullout of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan despite Americans remaining in the country, despite a promise from President Joe Biden.

“We continue our mission to get them out. It’s just that it has shifted from a military mission to a diplomatic mission,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Aug. 31 on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”