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Biden’s Afghan disaster will follow him home
What happens in Afghanistan won’t stay there. The consequences of defeat are never small even for the greatest nations.
Bret StephensContributorJoe Biden’s heedlessness, on the cusp of a sweeping Taliban blitzkrieg that on Sunday saw them enter Kabul, will define his administration’s first great fiasco.
It won’t matter that he is carrying through on the shambolic withdrawal agreement negotiated last year by the Trump administration, with the eager support of Donald Trump’s isolationist base, and through the diplomatic efforts of Trump’s lickspittle secretary of state, Mike Pompeo.
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