consequences on the failure in afghanistan. the editorial was a lot around the houthis and the saudis and the war. telling them knock it off. you need a diplomatic settlement, and they are saying the taliban got their military solution, and we want ours. it reminds me of the old woody allen movie where he s at a cocktail party in manhattan, and they are talking about the nazis marching on new jersey. he says we need to go down there and meet them with baseball bats and so forth. one of the other guest says no, i think what s called for is a strongly worded op-ed in the new york times. it just looks ridiculous. these people, they are not intimidated by over the horizon capacities and systems that they must do something. john: very often, youse got to have some sort of strength. there are criticisms. the secretary of state is not
legislative debates, the weak you are your position gets. so we promise to hear from the biden administration this week. an friday he will lay out new strategies for addressing the delta variant at some point this week and the thing that i would watch for, poppy, is whether or not he moves more aggressively into vaccine mandates perhaps on flights and transportation like rail transportation as well. it seems like that is all they could do a lot of what they could do at this point to try to move the needle. john, thank you for the reporting at the white house. let me bring in ron brown, senior editor. good morning. let s start at, this is what happens in presidencies. you plan for some disasters and then other ones just come your way. these are all converged at the same time on this presidency and it is reflected in his polling numbers. down five points in a single month. down ten points when it comes to his handling of covid since june. i thought aaron blake s op-ed in the washi
eyes. emily: and martha, the media is not unsupportive of the president s rhetoric, the wall street journal writes president biden s accusatory dishonest offense of the afghanistan withdrawal was unworthy of the sacrifices americans have made in that conflict. your thoughts? martha: i think that s a very interesting op-ed in the wall street journal, i suggest everybody reads it. it s called to the dishonest afghan account and goes to poit by point on the president s speech. and i m struck by the dishonesty that biden had with the president of afghanistan donnie, make it seem like the taliban is president biden s policy now, make it seem like the taliban did not win. make it seem like that while they are waving their flags and wearing our uniforms and using our rifles and walking through our hangers and getting into our planes, make it seem like the taliban did not win.
integrity call that we had to turn over afghanistan to the afghans. so while the withdraw from the graveyard of empires has been rocky and while we do need rigorous after action and congressional oversight over the decisions made for the last 20 years, the hallmark of wednesday is going to be that this president got us out of a war we could not win. in fact, you wrote that op-ed in the washington post where you said the president made the hard choice in afghanistan. he made the right one. but you also wrote, sir, that the national interest will be also best served by an after-action review of the withdrawal. tell me what you think that review should look like. it should cover the entire scope of the 20-year war in afghanistan from invasion to withdrawal. it should presumptively declassify all decisionmaking around afghanistan. it should build on the work done by the washington post with their afghanistan papers where they layout in excruciating detail the bias that caused natio
is a superintendent in north central florida dr. carly simon with an op-ed in the washington post entitled why our district is defying florida s ban on mask mandates. in it she writes, my district is experiencing a dramatic spike in the number of employees testing positive for covid-19 and school hasn t even started. tragically two of our employees died from complications a week ago, many are quarantined and unable to work. in light of this sobering reality, the board voted to require masks for all students during the first two weeks of school. a necessary step to start the academic year safely. certain lewe re concerned about the threat of lost funding but it should not come to that. after all we want what desantis wants, to keep schools open and kids in the classroom. i value life too much to take changes with the lives of