It is good to see this written down again. I have seen it written and heard it only a handful of times since the Bushy-Cheney folks launched this particular neoliberal bloodbath twenty years ago.
It 's good that Biden withdrew the troops, to the extent that he has actually done so, to any extent to which he has not just shipped them or their replacements to the Congo, to the extent that this was not an excuse for one last orgy of bombing–which, of course, it has been.
The we that criticizes Biden for pulling out is not so much of the population, not the antiwar left, not a progressive element, but the radical right-wing, mostly Democrat but some Republican false news industry, still drumming up the blood lust and bad conceptions for more war.
The rest of us criticize and ridicule Biden for bombing on his way out, for not pulling out earlier, for participating in more bloodshed, for his ongoing participation in pointless war.
It is good that Biden pulled out. But this is as yet no sign at all of a reduced-violence presidency. It’s more like your schoolyard bully kicking you in the nuts one last time before going off to molest his cousin or something. You are probably mostly glad he’s gone.
My congratulations to the Taliban, the somewhat cooler heads who have in the limited sense accorded to political and military enterprise prevailed.