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The chaos Joe Biden unleashed at Kabul airport will stain his presidency foreverCredit: AFP
He refused. He has long been convinced that American voters care little about distant foreign countries. But they will now care that American troops were slaughtered as a direct result of Biden’s reckless stupidity.
And they care that nearly 2,500 of their sons and daughters have died in Afghanistan for nothing as a result of its abject surrender to the Taliban.
His fewer and fewer supporters accuse Donald Trump of having triggered the withdrawal. But Biden has been ruling the free world since January. He could have changed course. He seems just as stubborn as his predecessor and arguably now even less competent.
The inevitable horror of yesterday, amid the chaos unleashed by Biden at Kabul airport, will stain his presidency forever.
In the long run, a decision he likely saw as uncontroversial will do damage far beyond even the future of a nation he has returned to Islamist terror.
Because 76 years after World War II, Biden showed that America will no longer stand up for its values - liberal democracy, the rule of law, and free markets – where they are threatened.
Imagine the joy in Beijing and the Kremlin. Imagine the push to dictators everywhere. How can Biden not care?
Britain has rightly snatched thousands of Afghans from the taliban’s clutches.
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Biden betrayed them. They, all the American and British troops killed or maimed there since 2001, all those who were massacred yesterday and all those who risk death or tyranny in the weeks to come.
Shame on him.
Brit grain
HOW moving on such a day of carnage that a British survivor of a previous horror in Afghanistan had to trump his life-changing injuries to win Olympic gold.
The recovery of ex-soldier Jaco van Gass is an astonishing triumph through thick and thin, as for so many Paralympians.
In 2009, a Taliban RPG cost him his left arm. Twelve years later, he broke a world cycling record in Tokyo.
Few things seem edifying today after the Kabul massacre. But Jaco’s bravery does.
Miracle de jabs
WHAT a proud step. The Covid shots have now saved 100,000 lives in England alone.
It’s up to our scientists, the pharmaceutical companies, the NHS and the government that helped fund everything and get vaccines approved before the rest of the world. And let’s not forget our Jabs Army, who helped kick off the deployment!
An incredible national effort. And so many people owe their lives to him.
White House CUT Joe Biden’s microphone moments after President asked about bailout plans for Americans trapped in Afghanistan
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