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Biden, Afghanistan, and the perils of "doing the right thing"

You can’t take the politics out of politics

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Matthew Yglesias
Aug 30, 2021
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As you know if you’ve been reading my posts or tweets on Afghanistan, I think Joe Biden did the right thing by withdrawing U.S. forces from the country. And while I won’t warrant that every single tactical or operational decision made along the way has been flawless (it would be the first undertaking in military history t…

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