Following the lead set by Donald Trump, conservatives have tended to scapegoat Joe Biden for last year’s ignominious exit from Afghanistan.
They talk as if there was nothing wrong with America’s longest war that making it a lot longer couldn’t solve. American troops were not dying. We were keeping the Taliban out of power and preventing terrorist groups from using a Taliban-led Afghanistan as a safe haven. We had a “light footprint,” not needing to overcommit our troops and resources. And we had an air base at Bagram that drove the Chinese and Russians crazy and allowed us to operate close to the action, where we could drone-strike high-value targets.
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