A new look into the botched Afghanistan withdrawal revealed President Biden criticized experts and had a 'swaggering faith' in himself regarding foreign policy.
Evacuees wait to board a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 23, 2021.
Those close to the president said he described these establishment figures as"risk-averse, beholden to institutions" and"lazy in their thinking." Taliban fighters patrol on the road during a celebration marking the second anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan, in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023.
"They felt a connection with the country, an emotional entanglement. Fielding an overwhelming volume of emails describing hardship cases, they easily imagined the faces of refugees. They felt the shame and anger that come with the inability to help," Foer noted. Biden obsessively combed over the images of Afghans, trying to find ways to bring as many refugees into the country as quickly as possible.
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