Rich Lowry offers his take on Biden’s pullout of Afghanistan in his column at the New York Post.
Barely a
day passes without news of more Taliban gains in Afghanistan. Perhaps the
Afghan government and its forces will prove more resilient than many expect,
but if the country continues its slide toward chaos or, worse, the Taliban
rapidly take Kabul, President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw a residual US
force will look like an amateurish, unforced error by a man who prides himself
on his foreign-policy experience and acumen.
With his top military leadership
opposed and credible warnings that Kabul could fall within months after a
withdrawal, Biden went ahead with it anyway, on the basis of what an aide has
called “his gut.”
So far, indications are that the
president would have been better off heeding his military advisers than his
viscera.
The Afghan war has, of course,
stretched on for two decades and become a holding action satisfying to no one.
But the cost to the United States of sustaining 3,500 troops in the country
without losing anyone in combat for more than a year hasn’t been high compared
with the entirely plausible downside of Islamist extremists allied with al
Qaeda sweeping to power again in Afghanistan.
You can
read the rest of the piece via the below link:
Biden is badly fumbling the US pullout from Afghanistan (nypost.com)
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