WASHINGTON - There is no possibility of uniting Afghanistan, US presidential candidate and former vice president, Joe Biden, said on Friday.
“I’ve been in every part of Afghanistan… here’s what I saw, there is no possibility of uniting that country, no possibility at all of making it a whole country,” Biden said at a presidential debate.
Biden said that he was totally against the whole notion of nation building in Afghanistan.
“The only thing we should be doing is dealing with terrorism in that region,” Biden said.
“It is possible to see to it that they’re not able to launch more attacks from the region on the United States of America. That’s a small footprint that we needed and I argued for that in the beginning,” Biden said.
Earlier in September, Biden had said that Afghanistan is three countries and it cannot be put together.
Afghan president’s adviser for strategic affairs, Waheed Omer, responded to Biden’s latest remarks on Afghanistan.
“Thank u for all the help. BUT; We didnt need you to build a NATION for us. We’ve been a NATION for centuries. We didn’t need you to make us a WHOLE country. We were a WHOLE country already. You came to defeat int’l terrorism that will help us all. We want you to see that through,” Omer said on Twitter. (1TV NEWS)