Afghanistan haunts Biden, as it should
COMMENTARY
By Jed Babbin - - Saturday, April 1, 2023
OPINION:
Nothing encapsulates President Biden’s approach to national security and foreign policy as well as the debacle he created in withdrawing suddenly from Afghanistan in August 2021.
We should remember that Mr. Biden’s action was poorly planned and incompetently executed, and that it is still yielding dividends to our enemies. Those dividends can be seen in the recent admission by Secretary of State Antony Blinken that — after 19 months — some Americans are still being held captive by the Taliban. They are also seen in the intelligence community’s squabbling about how soon — not if — terrorists will again attack us from Afghanistan.
U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan began with President Donald Trump’s poorly conceived February 2020 agreement with the Taliban. It placed many obligations on us, such as beginning to withdraw our forces within 135 days, and very few on the Taliban. The only significant obligation it placed on the Taliban was not to allow terrorists to use Afghanistan as a base for attacks on the United States. But there was no mechanism to enforce that obligation, which made it laughable.
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