Wednesday, September 01, 2021
Most of the media and, of course, GOP Congressmen are taking turns piling on Biden for the way the withdrawal from Afghanistan played out. I have yet to read or hear one of them propose a viable alternative that would have been better. Adding more troops to secure the airport and help refugees get there would have drawn a military response from the Taliban and put more soldiers in harms way. Leaving sooner or later would have changed nothing. This was going to happen no matter what. In the long run historians will look favorably on what Biden has done. His intelligence and military advisors provided faulty information for 20 years and, in the end, it came home to roost as the Afghan army collapsed and the government disintegrated. This was not Biden's fault.
