A weeks-long blowtorch of criticism for the chaotic conclusion to the United States' 20-year military involvement in Afghanistan came from Democrats as well as Republicans — Americans who voted for him and those who didn't. | Analysis by JohnJHarwood
Hours after the last US military flight out of Kabul, President Joe Biden began a meeting in the White House Situation Room with praise.
"You all did a helluva job," Biden told his top national security aides, according to a White House official. He feels the same way about his own performance.His conviction was not melted by a weeks-long blowtorch of criticism for the chaotic conclusion to the nation's 20-year military involvement in Afghanistan. The flames, as broad as they were intense, came from Democrats as well as Republicans, Americans who voted for him and those who didn't.
Approaching the August 31 deadline, the military had evacuated all but 100 to 200 citizens, many of them still ambivalent about leaving. The President chose what a different White House aide called"the best chance to save the most lives" by removing troops on schedule and relying on diplomatic pressure to help remaining Americans get out.Biden's belief that war in the oft-described"graveyard of empires" no longer served US interests hardened through years of quagmire.
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