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Jonah Goldberg: The people we owe in Afghanistan

I think Joe Biden’s decision to fully withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan is a mistake. It’s mistaken on strategic and moral grounds. I hope I’m wrong. But when even administration officials, and experts who favor the decision, concede that our pullout – of a very small contingent of troops – could result in a Taliban takeover it seems a safe bet that it will happen.

But that decision has been made and there’s no point arguing about it anymore.

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