New York
The celebrations will have been brief in Washington: perky for the first time in ages, Joe Biden savored the adoption by the Senate at the beginning of the week of his law to fight against inflation and climate change (Inflation Reduction Act), then the miraculous drop in prices at the pump, synonymous with calm for a president who had fallen into the abyss of unpopularity.
In the privacy of the Oval Office, party favors and sequins were nimbly put away: August 15 will mark the first anniversary of the fall of Kabul into the hands of the Taliban and a nightmarish end to summer 2021, marked by the emergency evacuation of Afghanistan, the death of 170 Afghans and 13 American soldiers in an attack on Kabul airport on August 26, 2021.
In an effort to manage this painful legacy, the Biden Administration had previously ordered an exhaustive investigation of the chronology of events from all departments involved.
As of August 17, 2021, the advisor to…
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