In the news now! "Biden dismisses criticism of Afghanistan withdrawal"

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'from the very beginning' and adds that 'no one's come up with a way to indicate to me' how to withdraw 'without anybody getting hurt'. And for breaking his own promise not to leave Americans behind, among other things. Biden did not oppose the invasion of Afghanistan, however. Then a senator from Delaware, he joined his colleagues in a unanimous vote in support of the 2001 authorization of military force against "nations, organizations, or persons" that then-President George W. Bush determined to have helped perpetrate the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Biden has repeatedly touted his opposition to then-President Barack Obama's "surge" of additional troops into Afghanistan when Biden was vice president in 2009. That opposition, however, does not amount to Biden having been "against that war … from the very beginning." President Biden also twisted the criticism over his withdrawal from Afghanistan. Critics do not fault the president for failing to have "gotten out without anybody being hurt" but... rather for breaking his own promise not to leave Americans behind, among other things. "If there's American citizens left, we're gonna stay to get them all out," Biden told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on Aug. 16. Yet on Aug. 31, just 15 days later, the president marked the end of the war in Afghanistan with a speech in which he admitted that "about 100 to 200 Americans remain in Afghanistan with some intention to leave." "What’s really troublesome and almost frightening to know is that we have a commander in chief who does not see the imperative of bringing the Americans home," Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William "Jerry" Boykin told Fox News in an interview on Sept. 1. "That’s a longstanding ethos, not just of the military, but of America."