In Afghanistan, there were always only bad options. Yet what's unfolding now seems to be among the worst.
The episode will stain and perhaps fatally compromise the Joe Biden administration, a strange and deeply ironic turn of events for the man who walked into the White House earlier this year boasting the most extensive foreign policy experiences in modern history.
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