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The images from Kabul and Washington collide, astounding.
In the Afghan capital, the American flag has disappeared from the roof of the embassy.
On the other side of the world, on the east coast of the United States, black-red-green Afghan flags fly around the White House, waved by angry hallali protesters in Central Asia.
Joe Biden hasn't seen them.
While dazed Kabul offers itself to its new masters, the US president is on vacation in Camp David, Maryland.
Deserved leave, he thought, after the forceps adoption of his great legislative work, an infrastructure law worth more than 1 trillion dollars - but a rest now very unwelcome.
The president had to interrupt him on Monday evening to speak again on the Afghan situation.
In a televised address, he
"firmly defended"
his decision to withdraw American troops, conceding, however, that the takeover of power by the Taliban
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