Look, weve closed the chapter on Afghanistan. And now were committed to America. We want to put the past behind us and are committed to build back better and infrastructure. We want to focus on people, on jobs, on working-class Americans struggling to pay the bills.
Were not dwelling on the past.
None of these are quotes yet. Already by the time you read this, that might have changed.
Because even while the frantic Kabul evacuation effort was ongoing the White House preferred to talk about anything at all other than their deadly and disastrous retreat. And we all heard Tuesday afternoons angry, 20-minute speech by the president: The retreat was a great success, a real Joe-Eagle example of this administration keeping its promises and its all the fault of that dastardly Donald Trump and the cowardly Afghan government.
The White House will face some obstacles in changing the narrative. This, for instance, is the first story since Super Tuesday thats seen a largely complicit corporate media really go after the administration for any of its numerous and demonstrable failures.
Its the first story thats seen the same corporate media that virtually propped up now-President Joe Bidens limp and barely responsive person begin to wonder aloud if his public mental decay might be a sign of shock mental decay.
Finally, there are still hundreds of Americans and many more American-aligned Afghans stranded in the country ..........