Cheney, Rumsfeld enabled
disastrous Taliban takeover
Rummy spurned ‘total surrender’
In the historical context, the sometimes venomous criticism being aimed at President Joe Biden for recent events in Afghanistan is grossly misdirected.

SecDef Donald Rumsfeld, chief architect of the Afghanistan disaster.
The seeds of the current disaster were sown almost 20 years ago by the hubris and malfeasance of then-Vice President Dick Cheney and then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Without their mistakes and arrogance, the Taliban would have been consigned to the dustbin of history decades ago.
You might include President George W. Bush on this list, but we all know who really was running the country in 2002.
Americans’ historical amnesia is showing. We would do well to remember the past so we can avoid repeating it.
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