The Media Manufactured Biden s Fiasco in Afghanistan

America s withdrawal from Afghanistan has yet to cost our nation a single casualty. Evacuations of U.S. citizens and allies from Kabul s airport are proceeding at a faster pace than the White House had promised, or than its critics had deemed possible. Afghanistan s decades-long civil war has reached a lull, if not an end. On the streets of Kabul, order and quiet have replaced rising crime and violence. Meanwhile, the Taliban is negotiating with former Afghan president Hamid Karzai over the establishment of an inclusive government acceptable to all Afghans.

In other words, Joe Biden s withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a disastrous and humiliating fiasco, in the words of the mainstream media s ostensibly objective foreign-policy journalists.

This may be an accurate description of what recent events in Kabul have meant for the president, politically. The latest polls have shown sharp drops in Biden s approval rating, driven in part by widespread opposition to the way his administration handled its (otherwise popular) exit from Afghanistan. Yet this political fiasco is not a development that the media covered so much as one that it created.

via nymag.com

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