All eyes on US exit from Afghanistan
Updated May 1, 2021, 2:30 a.m.
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Biden gave away a key bargaining lever
When the United States abandons Afghanistan this spring or in the summer, the Taliban will triumph. Kabul will soon fall. And women will again be subjugated to patriarchal fervor. Jeff Jacoby was quite right to warn that âthe Taliban will grow stronger and bolderâ (âBidenâs blunder in Afghanistan,â Opinion, April 21). The ongoing civil conflict will escalate, and any kind of representative democracy will fall before the fundamentalist diktats of the Taliban. This is President Bidenâs first and most alarming blunder, even given its undoubted domestic political benefits.