Op-Ed

Biden’s Disastrous Pullout from Afghanistan Could Cost Him Reelection

By Marc A. Thiessen

The Washington Post

August 28, 2023

President Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan has largely slipped from public consciousness, but it could very well cost him the presidency.

Don’t get me wrong, when Americans vote next year, most won’t be thinking about Taliban forces marching into Kabul in 2021, horrific images of Afghans clinging to and then falling from departing U.S. military aircraft, or the 13 Americans killed by a suicide bomber at the Kabul airport’s Abbey Gate. But those catastrophic moments indelibly shifted Americans’ opinions of Biden’s presidency.

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