Tragedy is an inadequate word to describe what’s happening in Afghanistan. President Joe Biden’s administration’s feckless, vacillating incompetence is a catastrophe.

Almost 20 years of American involvement in Afghanistan have ended in unmitigated disaster. In fact, it would be difficult to imagine a worse scenario.

Leaving to put ‘America First’ or staying to protect Afghan human rights would be defensible. Leaving while pretending to care about those rights is not.

Using the same deceitful tactics they pioneered in Vietnam, U.S. political and military officials repeatedly misled the country about the prospects for success in Afghanistan.

Biden argued that the Taliban’s swift takeover of the country vindicated his decision to withdraw American troops.

In yielding Afghanistan to the Taliban, Joe Biden has engineered the worst foreign-policy disaster in a generation.

The U.S. has a responsibility to protect Afghans from the mass atrocities of the Taliban.

His departure comes as the U.S. takes steps to evacuate its remaining embassy staff and other personnel from Afghanistan. Source: Afghan President Ghani Flees Country as Taliban Enter Kabul: ‘It’s Over’ | National Review

In April, President Joe Biden ordered the full withdrawal of remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, in effect ending America’s longest overseas war; the mission itself is now slated to be over by August 31.

While the media frequently obsesses over the redistribution of wealth, they have ignored the Chinese government’s theft of U.S. technology, which has created “the biggest illegal wealth transfer” in world history.