Edward Luce: “Biden will undoubtedly attract far more of the blame than he deserves for the closing chapter of America’s longest war. The defeat to the Taliban was a whole-of-government, bipartisan, multiple-presidency operation. But Biden’s name will always be associated with the manner of America’s pullout.”
“On Thursday, he dug a deeper hole for himself. As the US evacuation was accelerating, Biden vowed that ‘America will not be intimidated.’ He promised that the US would strike back against the terrorists ‘at our time, at the place we choose and the moment of our choosing.’ The gulf between Biden’s boilerplate rhetoric and the reality of a retreating superpower will be hard for White House aides to spin away.”
