Throughout the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle and the Taliban’s rapid takeover, one person has been strangely silent: former President Barack Obama.

Former Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc, who spent nearly six years as special operations commander in Afghanistan, believes the onetime leader of the free world has not commented because he doesn’t want blowback for the catastrophic blunder he helped create.

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