'Biden made a strong case for his decision to leave Afghanistan. ... Yet in stubbornly insisting that he was right all along, without fully acknowledging the pain of this withdrawal...Biden diminished the power of his argument' | DavidAxelrod, CNNOpinion
David Axelrod, a senior CNN political commentator and host of"The Axe Files," was a senior adviser to President Barack Obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential campaigns. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his. View more opinion on CNN.
Joe Biden was always a skeptic about what was possible in Afghanistan. I was a witness to that skepticism. In 2009, President Barack Obama convened an intensive review of US strategy in Afghanistan. After seven years of war, the allied effort there was floundering. Attention and resources had been shifted to Iraq, while the war in Afghanistan drifted. Obama wanted to chart the way forward. He led nine fateful meetings in the Situation Room, in the basement of the White House.
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