The administration says it will keep sufficient forces in the region to react if al-Qaida or other terrorist groups re-establish training camps inside Afghanistan, but the dispersal of the terrorist threat meant it no longer made sense to keep a permanent force in the country.
“This is not 2001, it is 2021,” the senior official said. “And in 2021, the terrorist threat that we face is real and it emanates from a number of countries indeed a number of continents,
from Yemen, from Syria, from Somalia, from other parts of Africa. And we have to focus on those aspects of a dispersed and distributed terrorist threat.”
Biden expected to make formal announcement on Wednesday that troops will return home by 20th anniversary of al-Qaida attacks
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Wait just where in the region? The region is completely shut off to them i.e. Russia's influence Central Asia. Joe's government doesn't get on with Pakistan, and no Pakistani government would allow it. India? Maybe, but I doubt it, it's too far away and the Indian people wouldn't want it.
Also it seems the US will flush parts of the Middle East and Africa with troops, looks like they're going to fight multiple insurgencies at the same time.