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What The Biden Administration is Not Saying About Afghanistan Is Getting Louder

The disjointed and, frankly, lackadaisical public response of the Biden Administration to the events in Afghanistan begs some questions.

Andrew Donaldson
5 min readAug 19, 2021

The disjointed and, frankly, lackadaisical public response of the Biden Administration to the events in Afghanistan begs some questions. With the president not taking any questions other than a sit down with George Stephanopoulos, it’s falling to various officials to face the press.

But first that Stephanopoulos sit down. To be fair here, these are clipped by ABC as promotions (full clips and transcript available here) and is not the full version, but this line of reasoning pretty much has been the president and his team’s position since the evacuation started:

Once again, the president defends any criticism about the handling of the failure of Kabul and the frantic effort to evacuate to the Kabul airport as unavoidable, pointing out there was going to be chaos when America…

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Andrew Donaldson
Andrew Donaldson

Written by Andrew Donaldson

Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Veteran. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag on culture & politics, food writing @yonderandhome, Host @heardtellshow & other media

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