[vlovich123]

Can someone explain to me the partisan tilt this coverage has had? Both parties seem to have wanted to get out of Afghanistan and this past few weeks is (at least per my understanding) the culmination of the plan the Trump administration had put into motion (signing the peace treaty with the Taliban, releasing their prisoners, etc). Is there something specific the Biden administration bungled? What would a better plausible outcome have looked like?

And yes, the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and on “terror” have clearly been mismanaged from the start in exactly the ways that critics predicted, but I don’t see meaningful differences in the way all administrations have bungled these things.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Same reason Clinton was blamed for NAFTA even though it was a GOP initiative that Bush was ready to sign but they delayed because it gave them political ammunition if the bill landed on the new guy's desk.

[smitty1e]

> culmination of the plan the Trump administration had put into motion

Alternative view here => https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/16/how-two-decades-of-lies...

"On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Amber Smith, author, veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and deputy assistant to the Secretary of Defense during the Trump administration, joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how U.S. leaders spent two decades lying to taxpayers about the war in Afghanistan."

[djkivi]

I doubt Biden intended for Afghanis to be hanging on US airplanes as they took off from Kabul.

[mikecoles]

He would've have been aware of the conditions that would have led to such activities.