Following the evacuation of people in Afghanistan as a result of the Taliban hits, United States President Joe Biden has stated that its time to end the war in Afghanistan, and look to towards the future.
He said that there's nothing low grade, low risk or low cost about war, and people affected by these crisis needs to look to the future that's safer, secure, and honour those who served in ensuring peace is restored.
Joe Biden said,
A lot of our veterans and their families have gone through hell—deployment after deployment, months and years away from their families, missed birthdays, anniversaries, empty chairs at holidays, financial struggles, divorces, loss of limbs, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress.
We see it in the struggles many have when they come home. We see it in the strain on their families and caregivers. We see it in the strain of their families when they're not there. We see it in the grief borne by their survivors. The cost of war they will carry with them their whole lives.
Most tragically, we see it in the shocking and stunning statistic that should give pause to anyone who thinks war can ever be low-grade, low-risk, or low-cost: 18 veterans, on average, who die by suicide every single day in America—not in a far-off place, but right here in America.
There's nothing low-grade, low-risk or low-cost about any war. It's time to end the war in Afghanistan.
As we close 20 years of war and strife and pain and sacrifice, it's time to look to the future, not the past—to a future that's safer, to a future that's more secure, to a future that honors those who served and all those who gave what President Lincoln called their “last full measure of devotion.”
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