We didn’t disagree with Biden’s move to remove the last US ground forces, just as Donald Trump promised as well when he was in office. That’s plainly what most Americans wanted, too. Afghanistan had become an endless war.
But any pullout had to have a plan. Not an utterly disastrous cut-and-run, with virtually no provision for the Afghans who worked with us all these years.
The Army of the Republic of South Vietnam fought off an invasion in 1972 — with the help of massive US airpower; 1975 was a disaster because anti-war liberals in Congress prevented more airstrikes.
The same thing is happening now in Afghanistan. Adela Raz, the Afghan ambassador to the United States, is perfectly right to complain that current US air support is “extremely limited.” Nothing forced Biden to go soft there.
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