US President Joe Biden raised the issue of his decision to end American military presence in Afghanistan during an end-of-term foreign policy speech Monday, saying he &saw no reason to keep thousands of servicemen& there.&Today, I can also report to the American people [as] the first president in decades who'snot leaving a war in Afghanistan to his successor,& the 82-year-old said, adding that &the primary objective of war had been accomplished& when SEAL Team Six took out Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden during a daring Pakistan raid in 2011, the New York Post reported.&I believe[d] that going forward, the primary threat of Al Qaeda would no longer be emanating from Afghanistan, but from elsewhere, and so we did not need to station sizeable number[s] of American forces in Afghanistan,& he said, adding that he &had a choice& on whether to keep the troops there.&In my view, it was time to end the war and bring our troops home, and we did.&The US withdrew its final soldiers at the end of August 2021, which resulted in the immediate collapse of the White House-backed republic government and ushered in the Islamic Emirate as the new rulers.President-elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, January 20.The post Biden mentions Afghanistan withdrawal during end-of-term speech first appeared on Ariana News.