Give Joe Biden Credit for Withdrawing from Afghanistan

Eric Medlin
3 min readJul 21, 2021

Our leaders should be praised for taking bold actions to benefit Americans.

Bagram Air Base, now under Afghan control. Source: Reuters

President Joe Biden has done something his three predecessors could not accomplish. On July 6, AP reported that American troops had left the influential Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. The withdrawal marked the symbolic end of the United States’s two-decade presence in the country. Only a…

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Eric Medlin

I’m a writer interested in the intersections of history, ideas, and politics. I publish every week. www.twitter.com/medlinwrites