The Media Whitewashes Biden’s Afghanistan Blunders

The Media Whitewashes Biden’s Afghanistan Blunders

• The media scrutiny to which he has been briefly subjected is already ebbing.

"When the Biden administration’s feckless management of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan produced all too predictable chaos, the legacy media uncharacteristically reported on the debacle with remarkable candor. This was unsettling to a White House inured to obsequious coverage.

...it is abundantly clear that Biden studiously ignored advice from his military and national security advisors in order to adhere to his self-imposed withdrawal date of August 31.

• ...yet many in the media clearly yearn to absolve Biden of responsibility for his incompetent and deadly withdrawal. 
• Many insist that the real culprit is the man he replaced seven months ago. 

Even as the bodies were being counted in Kabul, NBC News published an opinion column by Sébastien Roblin titled, “The Afghanistan airport explosion happened under Biden but traces back to Trump.”...Read all.