By August 14th Joe Biden was reduced to trying to shift some blame to Donald Trump. “When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor,” he said
Joe Biden may have more foreign-policy experience than any American president in 30 years, but he is haunted by the brutal assessment of his judgment by Bob Gates, who was secretary of defence under the president both men served, Barack Obama. Mr Gates called Mr Biden “a man of integrity” whom it was impossible not to like. Yet, writing in “Duty”, his memoir, he added: “I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign-policy and national-security issue over the past four decades.
As recently as on July 8th Mr Biden dismissed any chance that American diplomats might wind up scrambling for an exit as they did in Vietnam. “None whatsoever,” he said. “Zero.” He said the possibility of “the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely”. By August 14th Mr Biden was reduced to trying to shift some blame to Donald Trump. “When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor,” he said in a statement.
Yet Mr Biden also stood behind his own decision, saying that America’s mission of eliminating the terrorist threat from Afghanistan was accomplished years ago. His alternative to withdrawal, he said, would have been to commit more troops “to fight once again in another country’s civil war.” He said he was the fourth president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan and would not “pass this war on to a fifth.
Mike Pompeo, Mr Trump’s secretary of state, rejected Mr Biden’s remark about Mr Trump’s deal as “pathetic blame-shifting” and insisted the Biden administration had failed to create conditions for an orderly withdrawal.
Polling as recently as on August 9th has shown that, if asked to express a view, Americans said they supported Mr Biden’s withdrawal. The left within the Democratic party wanted America out long ago, and his establishment Democratic critics have no other political home. Mr Trump’s own disdain for America’s involvement in Iraq has blunted attacks by Republicans, leaving them to complain about the manner of the withdrawal rather than the fact it happened.
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