President Biden hopes to tamp down a political crisis by emphasizing that leaving Afghanistan was the right call, even if the exit is a debacle.
The Taliban swept into Kabul and seized power on Sunday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.In his hastily prepared speech, Biden had a lot of ground to cover and much to accomplish. Here are five key takeaways that show how Biden hoped to tamp down a growing political crisis by emphasizing that pulling out of Afghanistan was the right decision, even if the exit appears to be a debacle.This is the kind of thing that sounds good when presidents say it.
“The truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated. So what’s happened? Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military collapsed. Sometimes without trying to fight.”
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