#WR: Afghanistan War: Strategic defeat and moral debacle. The @WSJ Editorial titled "The Debacle in Afghanistan, Biden and Trump share responsibility for the looming defeat" says:"Mr. Biden’s hell-bent, ill-planned withdrawal from Afghanistan is turning into a strategic defeat and moral debacle."
This Editorial remarks that "Many Afghan troops are fighting bravely, but they lack the air support that has been their main military advantage. Mr. Biden blundered in withdrawing all U.S. air power from the country, including private contractors who assist the Afghan air force in maintaining helicopters and planes. The contractors are now literally having to assist via Zoom calls, while the U.S. military flies too few sorties from the Persian Gulf region to slow the Taliban."
And WSJ concludes that despite many Americans don't caring about what is happening in Afghanistan right now, that this withdrawal is another Vietnam, a moral debacle with surely negative consequences for the United States.
SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal
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