Biden is right to do this and the timing is reasonable. We must be prepared for unhappy outcomes in Afghanistan, but those were always likely. Our national interests can be better protected by diplomacy and forces deployed elsewhere.
https://twitter.com/jmhansler/status/1381999781669695489
It is worth remembering that Biden was right about Afghanistan in 2009, arguing against the doubling down ultimately embraced by Obama. The subsequent cost to us has produced very limited material advancement of our interests.
Once we pull out, we must do what we can via multilateral mechanisms to seek to protect the people of Afghanistan, to promote democracy, to advance and defend women's rights and to ensure the country does not again become a terrorist haven.
That's what we should have done in 2002 or 2003 following our initial efforts to strike back at and destroy Al Qaeda after 9/11. Though this war has seen great heroism and sacrifice that should be honored, it has been one of the great fiascos in the history of US foreign policy.
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