Analysis: Why Biden's Afghanistan exit wasn't about good politics

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Eric Boehlert
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good piece here how Biden was willing to take a political hit to do the right thing and end Forever War.

fact: Biden is the anti-Trump and the press is hanging him for it;

Analysis: Why Biden's Afghanistan exit wasn't about good politics
In ending America's longest war, President Joe Biden did something popular. It was never going to help him politically.
cnn.com
9:25 AM · Aug 23, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/22/politics/biden-afghanistan-politics-and-polling/

(CNN) — In ending America's longest war, President Joe Biden did something popular. It was never going to help him politically.

That was true before damaging images of chaos and desperation filled American television screens last week. The reason is that public opinion about the Afghanistan conflict, as with most overseas events and issues, remains ill-defined and loosely held.

Even after 20 years, the conflict that ended with the lightning Taliban takeover represents a distant blur for most Americans. Only a small sliver of the US population has a personal connection to the war through service in the all-volunteer military. Its duration through years of diminishing troop levels and casualties led much of the public to tune the story out.

Pollsters who have tracked the subject describe opinions no firmer than jello. Asked whether the American military should stay or leave, majorities say leave. Asked whether the military should leave or stay to continue counterterrorism operations, majorities say stay.

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