The swift collapse of the Afghan government following the pullout of U.S. troops has represented a failure of the Biden administration and, indeed, 20 years of American policy in the region.
Images of Afghans clinging to American transport planes, desperate for the hope our nation long had promised them, will be assessed by historians for decades to come.
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