The History That Will Haunt President Biden

His surrender of Afghanistan is a blot on America’s escutcheon on a par with the flight from Saigon in 1975.

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Afghanis trying reach the safety of Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 25, 2021 at Kabul. New Zealand Defence Force via Getty Images

It’s no wonder — as we near the mark of three years since America surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban — that President Biden neglected to mention in his valediction at Chicago his top foreign policy fiasco. Chalk it up to the fact that, despite Mr. Biden’s promise upon retreating from Kabul that Afghanistan would “never be used again to launch an attack on our homeland,” the threat is again, as it was before September 11, waxing.

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