Wednesday, August 25, 2021

How or why

When the crisis in the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan first hit much of the news reported that Biden was following the plan set up by Trump but as polls showed that people felt the Biden was responsible the focus shifted to getting people out safely. In the past few days the focus is once again shifting. The Washington Post returned to the story that Trump started the process and this was followed up by a similar claim on MSNC. Yesterday on CNN a man was interviewed saying the problem started 20 years ago and Biden finally ended it. Over the next few months the conversation will shift from how we left to why we left and in time the whole episode will fade away into the next big news item. Recall Biden was put in charge of the US withdrawal from Iraq and billions of US equipment was left behind that then fell into the hands of ISIS as the Iraqi army folded. ISIS then took over most of Iraq and Trump sent in forces to defeat ISIS. This was all forgotten and Biden suffered no adverse consequences.

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