The president pledged 'America's Back' when he took office after four years of 'America First' - but experts say the unfolding situation in Afghanistan is diminishing the standing of the US on the world stage.
Afghanistan: Taliban fighters take southern city of Lashkar Gah following capture of Kandahar and Herat
Charles Lister, senior fellow at Washington DC's Middle East Institute, argues the decision is a"predicable calamity". The president and his advisers had gambled that the years of training by US and coalition troops and billions of dollars of equipment would enable the Afghan government forces to stand up against any Taliban advance.These two fundamentally important assumptions were wrong.
Of course that was precisely the reason that the US invaded Afghanistan in 2001. The Taliban had harboured al Qaeda as they planned the 9/11 attacks.It is somewhat of an irony that Mr Biden chose the 20th anniversary of the attacks on New York and Washington, next month, as his deadline to bring all the troops home.
His passion, through his long career, has been foreign policy, but he knew that it was the domestic challenges that needed to come first. He was elected on a pledge to fix America and to"Build Back Better".How has the Taliban advanced so quickly?
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