On the anniversary of the last American C-17 transport plane leaving Afghanistan, images of that shameful day still haunt President Joe Biden and taint his legacy. They will do so in perpetuity.

Recall some of these appalling events. Men who had stowed away on the aircraft undercarriage in the hope of fleeing Taliban barbarisms fell to their deaths from the sky. Children were passed from hand to hand over the airport’s barbed wire in hope that they would be flown to safety. Taliban fighters were armed with American weapons and clothed in American uniforms abandoned by the Biden administration in its panicked retreat.