Commentary
Recently I have held two podcast conversations on Newt’s World about the first anniversary of President Biden’s abandonment of Afghanistan.
For the first podcast, I spoke with a U.S. Marine and his Afghan interpreter who was stranded in Afghanistan. During the second episode, I learned about an amazing team effort to help our Afghan allies survive the Taliban and flee the dictatorship.
After those two remarkable conversations about the Biden administration’s betrayal of our veterans and our allies, I was so angry I had to spend a few days calming down before writing this column.
I was reminded that some of my disgust with Joe Biden was captured in the Aug. 31, 2021, New York Post front page photo of Biden looking at his watch as 13 young American soldiers were being returned in caskets from his failed strategy of surrendering to the Taliban. The headline read “DISHONOR,” and the subhead was “Biden looks at watch as caskets come home.”…