One of the most interesting aspects of President Biden’s speech on the American withdrawal from Afghanistan is that it shows he suffers from faulty memory syndrome. Like many of the rest of us, I suspect.
Today Biden says that the mission of the allies in Afghanistan ‘was never supposed to have been nation-building’.
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