The 1-2 punch of Biden getting pilloried by the mainstream press for a "chaotic" Afghanistan withdrawal that went as well as could reasonably be expected, and the "anti-war" left giving him virtually zero credit for it, has very obvious (and bad) lessons any halfway competent politician will learn.
The Biden administration's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan should be viewed as a milestone moment in political courage. Instead, as bo...
How much evidence of credit do you need?
It didn't go "as well as expected." Why didn't the US negotiate a settlement? Why didn't they use Bagram air base to shuttle translators? It was a catastrophe.
Maybe he doesn't get credit for it because when it all went to shit, Biden's administration reminded everyone that Trump set it up up before he left office. You can't get credit for making the move AND shift blame for the friction of the move.
the anti-war left - including favorite boogeyman Chapo Trap House - effusively praised him over Afghanistan and savaged the media critics. We just don’t think it gave him a get-out-of-genocide-free card
I don't have the information to have a take on the anti-war left in the U.S., but polling to me suggests Biden gets almost no credit from *any* voting block in the country for this step. It's like it never happened. This is after the war was unpopular for years. I agree the political lesson is toxic
The answers for these deep thinkers always involve pie-in-the-sky scenarios that would never happen in the real world.
I'm still waiting for the report on the period between the Doha Agreement and Jan. 21, 2021 during which the Trump Administration appears to have done everything possible to destroy the ability of the Kabul government to exist.
This is spot on. Future presidents will probably keep kicking the can down the road, letting futile wars drag on indefinitely.
Yeah, to hell with the anti-war left!!!!!!!