As the nation headed out for the Easter holiday last week, President Biden sent his National Security Council spokesman to the White House podium to roll out a newly released report shifting blame for his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. In refusing to defend his own record on the pullout, Biden continued a pattern of hiding behind handlers who embarrass both themselves and the White House.
In any other administration, the secretaries of state and defense, if not the president himself, would release such an important review, not a White House flack. Yet it was radio silence from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Thursday afternoon. And President Biden left the White House for a weekend at Camp David without comment. So John Kirby was left to walk the plank in front of reporters about the twelve-page report.
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