Yet as of Tuesday evening, Biden has done something that three previous presidents either wouldn’t or couldn’t:endedthe longest war in American history. The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan on schedule and ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. But Biden has also done someth...
President Joe Biden withdrew all U.S. troops from Afghanistan in August. But unbeknownst to most of the public, he didn’t end the war. Following the American withdrawal, international funding for Afghanistan, equivalent to 40 percent of the country's GDP, was severedin compliance withsanctions...
* Biden ended the Afghan War. Sure, it was a disordered ending, a pell-mell evacuation, a calamitous collapse that saw Afghan innocents killed in a final drone strike (nothing new about that, I suppose). But he did end a twenty-year war, so credit to him for that. * Biden was abl...
House Republicans on Sunday issued a scathing report on their investigation into the U.S. withdrawal fromAfghanistan, blaming the disastrous end of America's longest war on President Joe Biden's administration and minimizing the role of forme...
Joe Biden is just days away from the White House. What will come out of his administration in Afghanistan? It has been almost 20 years since the United States invaded Afghanistan. How to assess the country's presence there since 2001?
In one of his final acts as President, Joe Biden introduced rules aimed at restricting exports of AI-related chips to several countries, arguing that this move would help the U.S. maintain control over the industry. Biden also issued executive orders related to the development of data centers...
This entry was posted in Joe Biden, South Carolina on January 20, 2025 by Brad Warthen. The pardon: Bad for the country; but maybe good for the soul 2 Replies Tweet Our old friend Doug Ross, being the ray of sunshine and Biden despiser that he is, posted this on an earlier st...
Historians of the future, grilling spatchcocked plovers over their campfires, will need not ponder for even a New York minute who started World War Three in the rockin’ 2020s.
As of June 2024, the majority of surveyed adults in the U.S. consider Joe Biden a weak leader. Of those, 46 percent considered Joe Biden a very weak leader. This is compared to 23 percent of respondents who considered him to be a somewhat strong leader. ...
After decades of dreaming of the White House, for Joe Biden, the reality of his term in office must feel extremely bittersweet. First, despite all the naysayers over the years, he finally won the presidency in 2020. Then, he secured major legislative victories like the Inflation Reduction Act...