re: #89 sagehen

Morning Joe is trying to thread the needle of criticizing Trump for making nice-nice with the Taliban and thus delegitimizing the “official” Afghan govt (letting their people out of prison, talking with them on the phone and saying nice things about them, sending Pompeo to meet with them, trying to invite them to Camp David)… also that the RNC deleted a page from their website that made clear Trump wanted out…

But at the same time, criticizing Biden for not moving with more speed and urgency to approve special immigrant visas and evacuate translators etc before this mess they should have foreseen came crashing down.

Basically the only argument left to blame Biden for all this is that he should have known that the ANA would collapse in a matter of days if not hours and anticipated needing to move tens of thousands of civilians way before the new deadline that he set when it became obvious that the original deadline was unworkable.