Well, this is ridiculous. The overarching reason President Biden didn’t get tens of thousands of Afghan allies out of the country sooner is incompetence, both on his part and his administration’s. It’s not much more complicated than that.
Catherine Rampell is an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post, and she posits a number of theories why the Biden administration didn’t get more of our allies out of Afghanistan sooner. Maybe he didn’t want to project a lack of faith in the Afghan government. Maybe people just didn’t want to leave. Or there’s the “more stomach-turning possibility” that Biden didn’t act sooner because the president “was afraid of what Fox News might say.”
So it’s the fault of Fox News, really.
Many explanations floated for why Biden admin didn’t get Afghan allies out earlier. Disorganization? People not wanting to leave? Preventing loss of faith in Afghan govt?
Or a more stomach-turning possibility: Biden was afraid of what Fox News might say https://t.co/ubJHkMeEtG— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) August 19, 2021