Pathetic retreat from Afghanistan shows shrinking Biden isn't up to the task of president

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Author(s) Scott Jennings
Source The Courier-Journal
Date September 2, 2021
URL https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2021/09/02/retreat-afghanistan-shows-joe-biden-isnt-up-task/5674015001/
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Quotes-start.png Since the first U.S. troops landed in Afghanistan, we’ve operated under a simple premise: We can fight radical Islamist terrorists over there, or we can fight them here. Two decades without a mass-casualty terrorist event on our soil proved the strategy was working. At the mission’s conclusion, we had just 2,500 troops in country and were spending about 1% of the Defense budget on operations. We hadn’t lost a soldier in over a year. The lid was on. Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position Withdrawal was justified on the topic Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2020–2021).


This item argues for the position Withdrawal was poorly executed on the topic Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2020–2021).