JFK Had The Cuban Missile Crisis, Reagan Had The Berlin Wall, And Biden’s Defining Moment Is The Fall Of Afghanistan
PF Whalen
August 17, 2021
Just about every American Presidency has a singular, “defining moment.” It may be a prolonged affair such as the thirteen days of mettle which made up The Cuban Missile Crisis for the gutsy John F. Kennedy, or the 444 days of utter ineptitude and indecisiveness by the pusillanimous Jimmy Carter. Contrarily, a defining moment may come in the form of a single decision and its precise implementation as we saw with Harry S. Truman opting to bomb Hiroshima, or perhaps with a quote followed by world-changing events as witnessed by Ronald Reagan’s, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
No matter the president, and no matter their efforts to oppose or promote otherwise, history, by way of facts and reality, ultimately selects one specific and remarkable circumstance for each presidential office holder and declares that episode as the crowning achievement, or fiasco, of that individual’s tenure. Joe Biden, the 46th president of these United States, is in the midst of his own defining moment in Afghanistan, and it’s not a good one.
As disturbing as the imagery may be of the goings-on we’ve seen thus far from Afghanistan, we can have no doubt that the actual situation on the ground is much worse. According to NPR over the weekend, “the atrocities on the battlefield are ‘horrific’ and include bodies being mutilated and other things the journalist wouldn’t go into on air.” Additionally, and predictably, the Taliban – which, make no mistake, is nothing more than a group of vicious, primitive terrorists – have closed schools for girls, have told women not to leave their homes unless accompanied by a male relative, and are rounding up unmarried women to be provided to Taliban fighters. But as brutal as this barbarism is, it is not the worst aspect of Biden’s defining moment.
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