Biden Claims He Opposed Nation Building in Afghanistan ‘from the Very Beginning’

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BIDEN: “Rebuilding that country as a whole nation is beyond our capacity. I argued from the very beginning that we should have a policy that was based on an anti-terrorism policy with a very small footprint that, in fact, only had Special Forces to deal with potential threats from that territory to the United States of America. The first thing I would do as president of the United States of America is to make sure that we brought all combat troops home, entered into a negotiation with the Taliban, but I would leave behind Special Forces in small numbers to be able to deal with the potential threat unless we got a real good negotiation accomplished to deal with terrorism. That’s been my position from the beginning. That’s why I think Secretary Gates and some members of the Pentagon weren’t happy with me."