Good morning from Washington, where President Biden’s brief remarks and answers to questions about the U.S. retreat from Afghanistan further confuse rather than clarify the situation. Fred Lucas reports. American weaponry in the hands of the Taliban will come back to haunt us, Tom Spoehr writes. Plus: questions about a firebrand lawmaker’s book deal and Victor Davis Hanson on how wokeness ruins everything. Aloha: On this date in 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower signs a proclamation admitting Hawaii as the nation’s 50th state. Enjoy the weekend.
The Taliban could sell or transfer some of remaining U.S. military equipment to transnational terror groups, such as ISIS or al-Qaeda, for them to use against U.S. citizens or partner countries.
For the first time in their lives, Americans of all classes and races are starting to fear a self-created apocalypse that threatens their family's safety and the American way of life.
No sooner did President Biden claim he was straitjacketed by Trump than he reversed course to defend not just his own Afghan withdrawal but the disastrous manner of it.
