National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan defended Biden’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, said that President Biden made the right strategic call to withdraw from Afghanistan three years ago and that history reflects well on that decision.
“The strategic call President Biden made, looking back three years, history has judged well and will continue to judge well,” Sullivan said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“If we were still in Afghanistan today, Americans would be fighting and dying. Russia would have more leverage over us. We would be less able to respond to the major strategic challenges we face,” Sullivan continued.
Sullivan declined to respond to reports that he had offered to resign after the Afghanistan withdrawal, saying he would not divulge details of his personal conversations with the president.
