![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “His new recommendation was to extend the mission with US troops for a while to see if it could yield a political settlement. “The military doesn’t f–k around with me,” Biden told people in 2009, referring to Obama, the book says.īlinken had initially agreed with Biden on a full withdrawal but shifted his stance after speaking to NATO ministers in March. ![]() In “Peril,” the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Robert Costa write that Austin and Blinken cautioned against a rapid drawdown - which eventually led to the deaths of 13 US service members - but Biden was resolute after seeing the war drag on for two decades and watching how the military and national security advisers boxed in then-President Barack Obama when he wanted to pull out.īiden believed military leaders manipulated Obama in his first year in the White House, the authors write in an excerpt obtained by CNN. President Biden overruled Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who advised him to slow the military withdrawal in Afghanistan, according to a new book being published next week. Record-breaking 67,759 migrants apprehended at US border this week Hunter Biden, divorce lawyers sparred over cash from $1M ‘Romania deal,’ laptop emails reveal Senate Democrats who backed ending Title 42 in 2020 now want it to stay Homeland Security had pro-life moms as ‘radicalization suspects’: docs ![]()
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