Until last week, President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan policy had been defined as a rigid adherence to his withdrawal deadline. And that insistence opened him up to a wave of criticism for being both shortsighted and politically motivated.
If Joe Biden’s withdrawal plan from Afghanistan has appeared chaotically rushed, it’s a product of his own making.
Biden’s resolve seemed to recede a bit on Sunday night when, in response to two consecutive questions about his Aug. 31 deadline, he said his “hope” was to “not have to extend” it. predictions from top Biden officials. And the surging cases of the Delta variant — alongside entrenched vaccine hesitancy of a large swath of the public — similarly took hold much faster, and with more force, than officials anticipated.
In the end, the United States had to surge troops anyway, to help provide security for a rushed evacuation the administration had not envisioned. And they may still be there for an undetermined amount of time after Aug. 31.
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