In the course of a weekend, a regime collapsed and a humanitarian crisis was launched. Afghan allies are trying in desperation to escape their country, and I think we all know what lies ahead for women and girls under Taliban rule. I fear that Joe Biden, not yet eight months in office, has set in stone his legacy and that what we're witnessing in the very foreseeable consequences of this ill-prepared action is the spectacular failure of a celebrated humanitarian.
As of Friday, the Taliban takeover was projected at 30-plus days. When I woke up Sunday morning, the Taliban had entered Kabul. By the end of the morning, the Afghan president had fled the country and the government had collapsed, and life for Afghans was abruptly and irrevocably altered.
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