Biden wants everyone to move on from Afghanistan now

Published August 19, 2021 5:50pm ET



The White House wants everyone to move on from President Joe Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

That was Biden’s primary message Wednesday in his pointless press conference on COVID-19. Biden talked about booster shots when a simple press release would have sufficed, and he got more attacks in on Republican governors who oppose mandatory masking for 5-year-olds. Then he walked off once again without taking a single question, even as some indeterminate number of Americans (estimated at between 10,000 and 15,000) are still stranded in Afghanistan.

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