.MaddowBlog: While others talked about ending the war in Afghanistan, President Biden did it, even when it would've been politically easier to keep the conflict going.
have challenged the conventional wisdom with pieces pushing back against key assumptions.
for The Atlantic, which was published yesterday, ran under a memorable headline:"Biden Deserves Credit, Not Blame, for Afghanistan." If anything, Americans should feel proud of what the U.S. government and military have accomplished in these past two weeks. President Biden deserves credit, not blame. ... Unlike his three immediate predecessors in the Oval Office, all of whom also came to see the futility of the Afghan operation, Biden alone had the political courage to fully end America's involvement.
It probably would've been easier for the Democrat to stick with institutional and policy inertia. Yes, his immediate predecessor signed a deal with the Taliban to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, and Biden lacked any meaningful leverage to renegotiate the agreement. But after 20 years of war, the president had the choice of deploying thousands of additional troops and maintaining an indefinite status quo that closely resembled recent years.
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