To hear the Biden administration tell it, this will not be a partial exit from the Afghan theater. “This is not conditions-based,” an anonymous administration source told the Washington Post. In other words, there won’t be any criteria that, if not met by September, could give Biden the ability to renege on his withdrawal plans.
So: Is this good news? Is the longest war in American history, one that has resulted in the deaths of thousands of U.S. service members and tens of thousands more Afghan soldiers and civilians not to mention the spending of trillions of taxpayer dollars, finally coming to an end?
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