Biden Forcefully Defends U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan Michael D. Shear, David E. Sanger and Thomas Gibbons-Neff © Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times President Biden said he was not declaring “mission accomplished,” but he made it clear that Afghanistan’s fate was no longer in the hands of the American military.
WASHINGTON President Biden vigorously defended his decision to end America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan on Thursday, asserting that the United States can no longer afford the human cost or strategic distraction of a conflict that he said had strayed far from its initial mission.
Speaking after the withdrawal of nearly all U.S. combat forces and as the Taliban surge across the country, Mr. Biden, often in blunt and defensive tones, spoke directly to critics of his order to bring an end to American participation in a conflict born from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He said the United States would formally end its military mission
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Why America’s Politics Are Stubbornly Fixed, Despite Momentous Changes Alexander Burns © Doug Mills/The New York Times President Biden spoke about the importance of vaccines during a trip last month to Raleigh, N.C. His approval rating has been been steady in the mid-50s for most of this year.
In another age, the events of this season would have been nearly certain to produce a major shift in American politics or at least a meaningful, discernible one.
Over a period of weeks, the coronavirus death rate plunged and the country considerably eased public health restrictions. President Biden announced a bipartisan deal late last month to spend hundreds of billions of dollars rebuilding the country’s worn infrastructure the most significant aisle-crossing legislative agreement in a generation, if it holds together. The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Thursday that the economy was on track to regain all of the jobs it lost during the pandemic by th