It's up to Afghans to run their country - The US President

 President Joe Biden on Thursday vehemently defended his decision to pull U.S. military forces out of Afghanistan, He said the people of Afghanistan have to decide what they are going to do in future, rather than sacrificing another generation of Americans in an unwinnable battle.

Speaking in the White House East Room, Biden said the Afghan military has the ability to take action against the Taliban, whose major advances in later few weeks have developed fears the country will have a clear way towards a civil war.

The President has set a target date of coming August 31 for the absolute withdrawal of U.S. military, leaving out about 650 troops to provide security for the U.S. embassy in Kabul.

A long-time skeptic of the 2 decades of  military presence there in Kabul, Biden conformed the United States had long ago achieved its original rationale for invading the country in 2001: to root out al-Qaeda militants and prevent another possible attack on the United States like the one launched on Sept.11, 2001. The mastermind of that attack, Osama bin Laden, was killed by a U.S. military team in 2011.

"We achieved those objectives, that's why we went. We did not go to Afghanistan to nation build. And it's the right and the responsibility of the Afghan people alone to decide their future and how they want to run their country," he added.

The president called on countries in the region to help bring about an peaceful political settlement between the warring parties. He stated that the Afghan government should seek a deal with the Taliban and  ask for them  to coexist freely.