Afghanistan

Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Thursday, Washington Post columnist and associate editor David Ignatius sympathized with “shell-shocked” White House staffers for which the catastrophe in Afghanistan has “been really, really difficult.” The concern for the emotional well being of top Biden aides came amid discussion of the President’s disastrous ABC interview in which he…

CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward, reporting from Kabul on the chaos at the airport where Afghans are trying to flee the country, in response to Biden's denial of failure asks, "if this isn’t failure, what does failure look like exactly?"

Left-wing author of “Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism” Jillian C. York condemned former President Donald Trump for fomenting unrest in the past, but expressed wariness over Facebook’s ban of the infamous Taliban.

In a lengthy interview this morning, the Good Morning America anchor repeatedly pressed the president on his administration’s “failure” in Afghanistan. However, despite some misleading statements, Biden was saved from the eager media fact-checks his predecessor was frequently exposed to.

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell on Thursday described the unfolding tragedy in Afghanistan as a “worldwide disaster” that even “compliant” liberal allies of Joe Biden are having trouble spinning. Appearing on Varney and Co., he declared, “The world has seen this President fail as commander-in-chief.”

Afghanistan is descending into chaos, thousands of Americans trapped in the country and women and children terrified of an emboldened Taliban. But CNN has spotted another danger: “Biden no longer gets credit simply for not being Donald Trump.” Yes, that’s an actual sentence from a CNN.com analysis of the carnage of the last week.  

Atlantic magazine's Peter Wehner's attitude toward Joe Biden seems to have shifted from adoration to complete disgust with the way he handled the disastrous exit from Afghanistan.

First come, first serve. You snooze, you lose. Let ‘em rot. That was essentially the message CNN counterterrorism analyst and former CIA operative, Phil Mudd was sending the American citizens and Afghan allies that couldn’t make it to the Kabul airport because they’re too scared to rick going outside or live in other parts of the country. His comments were so shocking that they even took …