Stay, go, delay: Joe Biden is trapped and has no good choices in Afghanistan

The president has inherited an unpopular war, and whatever he decides to do about it will be fraught with danger

Of all the foreign hazards, snares, pitfalls and timebombs left behind by Donald Trump, Afghanistan is arguably the worst. Joe Biden must decide in the coming days whether or not to abide by his predecessor's shabby peace deal" with the Taliban and withdraw all US troops by the end of April. It's a president-sized trap.

The point being, there is no peace, no viable deal, and no easy answer. All three main options - leave now, delay the US and Nato departure by, say, six months, or stay indefinitely - are fraught with danger. Biden may be damned whatever he does. The war is a hole dug by others. But he's in it now - and it risks becoming his hole.