In his latest address full of falsehoods, Joe Biden falsely claimed that, “the evacuation of thousands of people from Kabul is going to be hard and painful no matter when we started; when we began.”

The evacuation did not have to take place with thousands of Americans trapped behind Taliban lines.

It did not have to happen with the Taliban in control of Kabul and surrounding the airport.

A withdrawal was possible along with an evacuation that did not take place under these catastrophic circumstances. That’s entirely on Biden. 

Biden keeps dishonestly pivoting away from the specifics to generalities about the need for a withdrawal. The majority of Americans agreed with a withdrawal. That doesn’t mean that they signed on the dotted line for a disaster in which Americans end up in enemy territory.

There was one single fault at issue here.

Any responsible country evacuates civilians before the military. Biden chose to do it the wrong way around for a number of reasons. And then he was slow to react when things began going wrong.

Had the United States evacuated all American civilians, the airport would no doubt have been crowded with Afghans, but it would have been possible to get Americans out. The fall of Kabul (and the surrender of Bagram Air Base) left few options. Mostly bad ones. And Biden decided to adopt the worst of them by outsourcing airport access to the Taliban.

“I think, that history is going to record this was the logical, rational, and right decision to make,” Biden insisted.

I doubt anyone in history (even those Democrat historians who rank Obama higher than George Washington)  is going to look at these scenes out of Kabul and claim that Biden’s decision to evacuate the military before civilians was logical, rational, or right.