Last week, when reporters asked President Biden whether he worried that Afghanistan’s government might collapse in the face of Taliban military advances, he responded with ill-concealed annoyance.
“I want to talk about happy things,” he said.
The president went on to answer — he said the regime could survive, but only if its members stop squabbling — but then called a halt.
“I’m not going to answer any more quick questions on Afghanistan,” he said.
It’s no mystery why: Subjects like job-creation reports or the U.S. recovery from the pandemic let Biden talk about successes. Afghanistan offers only a choice of failures.
WNU Editor: The political cost to President Biden for what is unfolding in Afghanistan has so far been negligible. What has helped is that the Western media coverage has been minimal and/or selective. But my gut tells me that this is about to change.
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