Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal keeps getting worse all the time

Published October 20, 2021 3:10am ET



President Joe Biden and his administration assured us that they “planned for every contingency” in withdrawing from Afghanistan. Revisiting the latest news on that front, that claim remains laughable.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Afghan families are now literally selling their children in order to repay debts. Afghanistan’s economy is on the brink of collapse, the prices of basic goods have skyrocketed, and the value of its currency has collapsed. We are about 14 weeks removed from Biden claiming that a Taliban takeover was “not inevitable” and just over eight weeks removed from the Taliban waltzing into the Afghan capital of Kabul, to his utter surprise.

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