<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: The Fall of Kabul
Kabul has fallen, but President Joe Biden still thinks the United States made the right call.
by Caroline Mimbs Nyce
Aug 16, 2021
2 minutes
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Just four months after President Biden announced plans to fully withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the country is once again under Taliban rule. Kabul fell, despite 20 years of investment by from the capital’s airport showed desperate Afghans clinging to a departing U.S. military jet.
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