Biden: I Don't Know How That Happened

Biden: I Don't Know How That Happened

Could you have handled this better? No, says Biden. Meanwhile, desperate people fall from airplanes. Thousands of Americans remain trapped in a country now controlled by the Taliban. But no problem, says the president. How do you assess a statement like that? Our friend Piers Morgan described it as quote, "breathtakingly arrogant and disturbingly delusional." That sounds about right, if maybe a little understated.
Watching it, you wonder Biden if understands what this moment means to the rest of us. We had to leave Afghanistan. He’s right about that. It was always going to be ugly. That’s true. But this ugly? This humiliating? This destructive to America’s authority in the world? To our future? No. None of that was forgone. None of it was necessary. It was a choice that Biden and his advisors made intentionally, over months. They knew this was going to happen. They did it anyway.
What does that say about them? What does it tell you that they left thousands of American citizens behind when they fled, and then seemed markedly unconcerned about what might happen to them? It tells you a lot.
The U.S. government exists to serve its own citizens. Period. It has no other purpose. The moment our government stops serving its our citizens is the moment our government becomes illegitimate. That’s true. It’s always been true, and it’s obvious to most people. Does Biden understand it? Possibly not.