At the meeting, Biden pledged the United States would remain committed to Afghanistan with political and economic support even as the US military withdraws from the country.
“The senseless violence has to stop, but it’s going to be very difficult,” Biden said.
“But we’re going to stick with you, and we’re going to do our best to see to it you have the tools you need.”
Earlier in the day, Ghani held a meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon.
At that meeting, Ghani brushed off concerns that his government could fall as soon as six months after US troops depart.
“There have been many such predictions and they have all proven, turned out, false,” Ghani said when reporters asked about the US intelligence assessment.
Ghani also refuted the idea that the United States is walking around from his country is “The false narrative of abandonment is just false,” Ghani said.
At the White House, he also compared his country to pre-Civil War America, saying Afghanistan is in an “1861 moment, like President Lincoln, rallying to the defense of the republic, determined that the republic is defended.
“It's a choice of values, the values of an exclusionary system or an inclusionary system,” Ghani continued.
“We are determined to have unity, coherence, national sense of sacrifice and will not spare anything," Ghani insisted
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