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John Podhoretz is out today enjoying some well-deserved time away from the microphone. The nightmare in Afghanistan continued over the weekend and, despite the administration’s outward displays of confidence, the prospects for a disaster loom larger than ever. But will the emerging domestic political crisis over our disastrous pullout evolve into something that threatens to derail the Democratic political agenda? We discuss and debate.
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missing from the podcast is discussion of groups in Afghanistan which are opposed to the Taliban. Ahmed Karsai and another former president are still in the country? If so, that indicates the Taliban is not all powerful just yet. Maybe Biden admin thinks the Taliban will have to compromise with other power centers. The sooner the US gets out of the way, the sooner future governance can be decided on.
And are the Taliban preventing people from getting to the airport to prevent an exodus of educated people? Maybe they want people to stay to enable the country to function.
In a parliamentary system, like Australia’s or the United Kingdom’s, President Biden would have resigned or been fired days ago And – get this – it would not be considered a very unusual procedure. It’s in the system.
Their head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, no resigning or defeats since 1952…