Chaos undercuts president’s vows of a steady hand

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bidens-promise-to-restore-competence-to-the-presidency-undercut-by-chaos- in-afghanistan/2021/08/16/4feaaebc-feaf-11eb-ba7e-2cf966e88e93_story.html

 

“[O]ver the past few days, the images from Afghanistan have put on vivid display an inability to plan, an underestimation of a foreign adversary, an ineffective effort to scramble and make up for it — and, as Biden demonstrated in a brief address Monday, an attempt to deflect full responsibility.”