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Biden More Concerned With 'Image' Over Solutions in Afghanistan

President Joe Biden arrives for a virtual meeting in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Aug. 30, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

By    |   Tuesday, 31 August 2021 06:47 AM EDT

President Joe Biden had said the Afghanistan pullout would be done "responsibly" and later claimed he didn’t "know how" the U.S. could leave "without chaos ensuing," yet when the Taliban reportedly offered his senior military leadership control of Kabul – including the city’s airport and the area around it – the Americans demurred.

This fits in with multiple changing narratives in just the past few days. First, Americans and Afghans were supposedly still able to get through to Kabul airport. Then, actually, Americans were instructed to avoid the airport because the Taliban wasn’t letting anybody through. First, officials were said to have had no advance warning of the attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport that killed 13 U.S. Troops. Then, the Biden administration reportedly had a day’s warning. First, a drone fired a missile at ISIS terrorists. Then, the strike may have actually killed nine family members including six children.

Marisa Herman

Marisa Herman, a Newsmax senior reporter, focuses on major and investigative stories. A University of Florida graduate, she has more than a decade of experience as a reporter for newspapers, magazines, and websites.

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President Joe Biden had said the Afghanistan pullout would be done "responsibly" and later claimed he didn't "know how" the U.S. could leave "without chaos ensuing," yet when the Taliban...
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