Biden ‘privately defiant’ over chaotic 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, book says

The Internationalists details how the president was determined to leave a country in which 2,324 US troops were killed since 2001

Joe Biden is privately defiant" that he made the right calls on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in summer 2021, a new book reportedly says, even as the chaos and carnage that unfolded continues to be investigated in Congress.

No one offered to resign" over the withdrawal, writes Alexander Ward, a Politico reporter, in large part because the president didn't believe anyone had made a mistake. Ending the war was always going to be messy."