An angry Biden blames Trump for Afghan pullout — then takes credit for it
By John Podhoretz
August 31, 2021 7:48pm
President Biden stood before the American people on a Tuesday afternoon and angrily informed us all that he had no choice but to end things the way he did in Afghanistan. No choice! NO! CHOICE!
Hey, don’t blame him! Poor Joe Biden! Look what a mess he inherited!
You want to pin the chaos on somebody? According to Biden, Donald Trump’s your man. The former president made a deal with the Taliban that obliged America to pull out by May 1, so what could Biden do?
Well, he could have done nothing. Which is to say, he could have said Donald Trump’s deal with the Taliban was no longer operative. And in a way, he did, since the May 1 deadline came and went and we were still there.
There are plenty of things Trump did that Biden’s stopped doing, plenty of Trump policies Biden’s reversed. In the end, this is one Trump policy — the Afghan bugout — Biden decided to honor.
You might think, therefore, that he would thank the former president for designing it. Instead, he wants people to blame Trump for a pullout Biden himself defends and for which he takes credit.
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