News: President Biden's speech on Kabul Attacks

President Joe Biden addressed the American citizens about the terrorist attack on Hamid Karzai International Airport on Thursday.<br /><br />As you all know, the terrorist attacks that we've been talking about and worried about within the intelligence community, was an undertaking attack by a group known as ISIS-K. They took the lives of American service members standing guard at the airport and wounded several others seriously. They also wounded a number of civilians, and civilians were killed as well. I've been engaged all day and in constant contact with the military commanders here in Washington, the Pentagon, as well as in Afghanistan and Doha. And my command here in Washington has been on this with great detail and you've had a chance to speak to some.<br /><br />So far, the situation on the ground is still evolving. And I'm constantly being updated. These are American service members who gave their lives. It's an overused word, but it's totally appropriate here. These individuals were heroes. Heroes who have been engaged in a dangerous, selfless mission to save the lives of others are a part of an airlift, and evacuation effort and like any scene in history. With more than 100,000 American citizens, American partners, Afghans who helped us, and others, to safety.<br /><br />In the last 11 days, just the last 12 hours or so, another 7,000 have got out. They were part of the bravest, most capable and most selfless military on the face of the earth. And they were part of simply what I call, the backbone of America. They're the spine of America. The best the country has to offer.<br /><br />Jill and I, our hearts ache. Like I'm sure all of you do as well. For all those Afghan families who have lost loved ones including small children who were wounded during this vicious attack—and we're outraged, as well as heartbroken. Being the father of a Army Major who served a year in Iraq and before that, was in Kosovo as a U.S. Attorney for the better part of six months in the middle of a war. When he came home after a