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Biden’s Afghanistan Bill Comes Due
Testimony from veteran survivors of the 2021 Kabul airport bombing throws a painful spotlight on the Afghanistan withdrawal.
When it comes to U.S. failures in Afghanistan, there is more than enough blame to go around. That’s a good thing: Because there are more than enough consequences for everyone, too — humanitarian and geopolitical.
The media’s most popular and profitable punching bag, former President Donald Trump, is certainly welcome to some of the blame.
After all, long before Joe Biden was elected President in 2020, three consecutive presidential administrations — two Republican and one Democrat — misled, obscured, concealed, obfuscated, and otherwise lied about U.S. military successes in Afghanistan.
The Afghanistan Papers, published by the Washington Post in 2019, made an irrefutable case that the situation on the ground in Afghanistan was never comparable to the rosy outlook projected by officials from the George W. Bush administration, the Obama administration, and the Trump White House.
Each in their turn misled the American people and our democratically elected representatives about U.S. military outcomes in Afghanistan. No one wanted to be the one left holding that particular bag when the truth finally came out.