Donald Trump made it clear that he still has some issues with a previous military operation that happened under Biden’s tenure.
Since returning to the White House, US president Donald Trump hasn’t been shy about making changes.
And the president may have hinted at the next big change he hopes to see enacted while he is in power.
Trump has recently said he takes issue with how America withdrew from Afghanistan back in 2021.
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During a cabinet meeting held on Wednesday (February 26), Trump made it clear what he would have in store for the generals involved if he had his way.
With Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by his side, he said: “They’re going to be largely gone.”
Turning to Hegseth, he added: “I’m not going to tell this man what to do. But I will say that if I had his place, I’d fire every single one of them.”
Joe Biden made the call for the American military to quickly evacuate in August 2021 when the Taliban overran the Afghan army and moved into Kabul.
US military planes were able to get US soldiers out of the country as well as some Afghan allies however the success of the evacuation was heavily scrutinized.
The move to withdraw came after Trump’s first administration had seemingly successful negotiations with the Taliban.
Hegseth said: “We’re doing a complete review of every single aspect of what happened with the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan, and plan to have full accountability.”
It is not clear how many military officers who were involved in the withdrawal remain on active duty.
At the time, Biden appeared to push back against his critics and insisted America had fulfilled its goal in the nation and it was the correct decision to bring soldiers back home.
In an address, he said: “When I came into office, I inherited a deal that President Trump negotiated with the Taliban. Under his agreement, U.S. forces would be out of Afghanistan by May 1, 2021 — just a little over three months after I took office.
“U.S. forces had already drawn down during the Trump administration from roughly 15,500 American forces to 2,500 troops in country, and the Taliban was at its strongest militarily since 2001.
“The choice I had to make, as your President, was either to follow through on that agreement or be prepared to go back to fighting the Taliban in the middle of the spring fighting season.
“There would have been no ceasefire after May 1. There was no agreement protecting our forces after May 1. There was no status quo of stability without American casualties after May 1.
“There was only the cold reality of either following through on the agreement to withdraw our forces or escalating the conflict and sending thousands more American troops back into combat in Afghanistan, lurching into the third decade of conflict.”
Topics: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, World News
Gerrard Kaonga