Let's say Joe Biden is right: the war in Afghanistan may well have been impossible to win.
That
"staying a year or five more"
in this country "gravedigger of empires" would not have changed anything in the end.
That America does not have vocation to indefinitely support a State unable to take in hand.
That a more or less inglorious departure was always registered at the end of the adventure, since G. W. Bush had not wanted to be satisfied with a punitive expedition against the protectors of Bin Laden ...
Nevertheless: twenty years after the cataclysm of September 11, the President of the United States will have to assume the devastating image of the Taliban flag casting its shadow on the American embassy in the heart of Kabul.
To this symbol of surrender are already added the scenes of a
"Saigon on steroids"
- chaotic evacuation, documents burned in haste, weapons seized by the enemy -
"the worst humiliation"
since the fall of the southern capital. Vietnamese in 1975.
This debacle was perfectly
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