We are watching in real time what happens when a man with a notoriously bad foreign policy record is handed the reins: Afghanistan has fallen to the Taliban, U.S. officials are fleeing to evacuate the embassy in Kabul, and the Afghan soldiers who worked with the United States are being executed in the streets.
The collapse of Afghanistan is a national humiliation, one that could have been easily prevented had President Joe Biden organized an effective withdrawal strategy. Instead, he pulled the vast majority of our troops out at once, giving them no time to secure our military weaponry, which is now in the hands of Taliban terrorists, or evacuate the interpreters who worked with our government. It is only a matter of time before the Taliban finds and kills them.
But what more could we have expected from Biden? Throughout his very lengthy political career, he has been wrong on just about every single foreign policy issue. On the Cold War, Iraq, the killing of Osama bin Laden, the killing of Qassem Soleimani, on former President Barack Obama’s drone strategy, and more, Biden has been horribly, horribly wrong. Obama’s former defense secretary even accused the then-vice president of creating a “category five s***storm” on the international stage.
But back then, Biden’s poor decision-making wasn’t of much consequence because he wasn’t the guy in charge. Well, now he is. And this is the result.
