Biden's Afghan fiasco causing him to lose support of some Democrats, allies

 Washington Examiner Editorial:

It goes without saying that Republicans are pretty disturbed by the Biden administration’s incompetent, neglectful, poorly planned, and disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. But quite a few Democratic officeholders in Washington , who don’t see it as their job to go down with President Joe Biden’s ship, have also rightly condemned the embarrassing, panicked, deadly flight by U.S. forces.

Neither is it just Americans. The same European parliamentarians with whom Biden boasted he would repair relations after Donald Trump are flabbergasted and rethinking their cooperation with the United States. Their acid comments about Biden have been diplomatically polite yet merciless. One prominent German leader stated that the disorderly withdrawal “does fundamental damage to the political and moral credibility of the West ." A top diplomat for the European Union remarked that the Afghan disaster “shows that Europe needs to develop this famous ‘strategic autonomy' in order to be ready to face challenges that affect us eventually.” He was invoking Trump-era language about Biden being an unreliable ally.

om Tugendhat, chairman of the British Parliament’s foreign affairs committee, took to Twitter and called it “the biggest foreign policy disaster since Suez,” adding, “We need to think again about how we handle friends.”

Biden “hasn’t just humiliated America’s Afghan allies,” a former British Cabinet minister told the New York Times. “He’s humiliated his Western allies by demonstrating their impotence.”

Afghanistan is the low point of Biden’s presidency so far — an event so humiliating that it could force him not to seek reelection. That’s how bad this is.

But there are those, mostly White House employees and their closest allies in the media, who are still out there trying to spin this as some kind of “success” for the administration. Their effort to minimize Biden's mistake is reprehensible and insults the intelligence of everyone within earshot.

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There are quotes from those making excuses for this debacle.  They are as disgraceful as Biden's decision-making.  Even Americans who thought we should leave Afghanistan know that the way Biden did it was one of the worst possible ways.