President Biden defended his decision to end America's 20-year war in Afghanistan, a day after the U.S. closed a two-week evacuation of 125,000 people from Kabul that saw the deaths of 13 U.S. service members and dozens of Afghan civilians. https://t.co/G5eSF6iiRV pic.twitter.com/zy5eQwbhsR
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 31, 2021
Biden defends pulling US troops out before all Americans evacuated https://t.co/0cHYJ0dfLt
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 31, 2021
In his first formal remarks since the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan, Pres. Biden assures Americans still in the country that his administration remains "committed to get them out if they want to come out." https://t.co/PpOJAi9dQs pic.twitter.com/BooNo3kxDC
— ABC News (@ABC) August 31, 2021
The choice for the United States in Afghanistan was either to withdraw from the country or escalate the conflict, President Joe Biden has said. | https://t.co/iaEJpsBmis | RTÉ Washington Correspondent @BrianOD_News has the latest pic.twitter.com/SIQfwZuo6y
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) August 31, 2021
‘Some say we should have started mass evacuations sooner and couldn't this have been done in a more orderly manner. I respectfully disagree,’ U.S. President Joe Biden fended off criticism of the U.S. exit from Afghanistan https://t.co/n7TWJb6wjC pic.twitter.com/TUqGF6LlJX
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 31, 2021
Does Biden think he made any mistake during the Afghanistan exit?
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 31, 2021
Psaki: "The president's been pretty clear that we all had an expectation that the Afghan national security forces would fight harder…We all had an expectation that President Ghani would not flee the country" pic.twitter.com/PQk7Ha3ZhQ
Biden's "task is to be forward-looking as he attempts to move on from 20 years of war, channeling the empathy for which he is famous rather than engaging in a sustained tit for tat with his critics," writes @jimantle. https://t.co/JblPdby4lR
— The Week (@TheWeek) August 31, 2021
Biden has been a good president, but the exit from Afghanistan has been an own-goal of epic proportions.
— Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@MaxBoot) August 31, 2021
My @PostOpinions column. https://t.co/9iXu247acg
Rep. Lauren Boebert: "It is time for action. Impeach Biden, impeach Kamala Harris." pic.twitter.com/nWR0yvCdQZ
— The Hill (@thehill) August 31, 2021
The Biden Administration should repeat the fact they were sent 19 warnings since April as well as the offers to get them out. How many Marines do we sacrifice for people ignoring those warnings for over four months? More than the 13 who gave already died? Hell no. https://t.co/cQiY03cdOg
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 31, 2021
Opinion: For Democrats, the political pain of Biden’s bungled exit from Afghanistan could be just beginning https://t.co/6RF8206vKt
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 31, 2021
Afghan Interpreter Who Helped Rescue Biden in 2008 Left Behind After U.S. Exit – WSJ https://t.co/XZCqmHuQaS
— Ziya Meral (@Ziya_Meral) August 31, 2021
US will want accountability. But US needs to regain its self-confidence. Whatever errors Biden, the mil and State made, they were partly redeemed by the brave effort to evacuate 120,000 Amers, Afghans and others in the face of imminent terrorist attack. https://t.co/HEfk1IOrV9
— Jennifer "A man is not a plan" Rubin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@JRubinBlogger) August 31, 2021
"Unlike his three immediate predecessors in the Oval Office, all of whom also came to see the futility of the Afghan operation, Biden alone had the political courage to fully end America’s involvement," @djrothkopf writes: https://t.co/WZoYdY13EN
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) August 31, 2021
Florida restaurant owner tells Biden supporters to "take business elsewhere" https://t.co/7c7j2LxVKL pic.twitter.com/KvFsH1n1S9
— The Hill (@thehill) August 31, 2021
The Overnight Note 