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Why We Failed: The American Exit From Afghanistan
Why We Failed: The American Exit From Afghanistan
Chaos Monday morning at Kabul airport. Some people clung to the sides of American military planes, desperate to flee the country.
H.R. McMaster, Nikki Haley, Justin Amash, Elliot Ackerman, Thomas Joscelyn, Eli Lake and Jacob Siegel weigh in.
By Bari Weiss
08.16.21 — U.S. Politics
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Why We Failed: The American Exit From Afghanistan

While the leader of the free world hunkers down at Camp David and his top spokeswoman is “out of office,” many of us are left wondering what to make of the horrific images coming out of Afghanistan.

In lieu of an explanation from President Biden, I asked some of the most thoughtful people I could think of to answer the question: What are we to make of w…

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Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.

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