Biden and Obama both knew that if you actually brought the last troops home, some ugly stuff would unfold. Both found ways to kind of kick the can down the road and leave this as a problem for their successor. There was an incredible amount of attention suddenly on bad things happening in afghanistan. It really hurt his numbers,. at least temporarily, come on, man. The president's been catching a lot of heat for his handling of c is for covet - what do you want us to do there? Mail every american to covet test.
Build Back Blunders, and other presidential misadventures.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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