The media is lambasting Biden over Afghanistan. But he should stand firm | Bhaskar Sunkara

The president was right to withdraw the US from Afghanistan - and he's being skewered for it

• I served with Nato in Afghanistan - it was a bloated mess

When Joe Biden, a conventional politician if there ever was one, said he was concluding the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan this month, in line with plans set in motion by the Trump administration, the response from the mainstream press was hostile. Following the Taliban takeover of the country, the tenor has only grown more hyperbolic.

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