The Afghanistan War Was A Success — If You Understand the Objective

With the Taliban racing through Afghanistan with breakneck speed, toppling the government in just days (not months as most intel suspected), Americans are coming to grips with the stunning failure that was the Afghanistan War.

There have been some classically bad hot takes in the past week. Republicans have lined up to slam Biden for what’s being called a great failure, but often times those same Republicans can be found tweeting their full support for President’s Trump attempts at the same full withdrawal during his term.

Never waste an opportunity to score some retweets.

In the age of soundbites and hyper-partisan politics, it’s hard to blame anyone for not using the opportunity to score some Twitter points.

But it’s important to remember a few things here that are very easy to overlook once we get caught in the blame game.

Let’s work from the present day backwards. I’ll start by saying that I’m no Biden fanboy; while I voted for him simply in defense of the alternative, he’s not done much or said much to impress me. But I’m not sure what could have been done here. Whether the Taliban took back the country in days or months, does it…