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Biden Can’t Escape Blame for Afghanistan Fiasco

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In a sane world, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the secretary of defense would resign. Victor Davis Hanson writes:

The American-nurtured Afghan military of the last 20 years that had suffered thousands of prior casualties evaporated in a few hours in the encirclement of Kabul.

Enlistees apparently calculated that their own meager chances with the premodern Taliban were still better than fighting as a dependency of the postmodern United States—despite its powerful diversity training programs.

Forces more powerful than the Taliban, in places far more strategic, will now leverage an ideologically driven but predictably incompetent administration, a woke Pentagon, and politically weaponized intelligence communities.

[Victor Davis Hanson, "Biden Can’t Escape Blame for Afghanistan Fiasco,” The Daily Signal, August 20]

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