Shortly after President Biden announced last week that he had “no regrets” about America’s exit from Afghanistan, in spite of the inescapable tragedy unfolding there as a result of it, NBC News ran a story on their website headed: “What is the ‘Biden doctrine’? Afghanistan pullout offers clues.”
Some clues! Some doctrine! But, looked at in the right way, the “pullout” did offer some clues about the Biden strategy for dealing with the Islamist threat. Not that this strategy relied, as NBC’s White House correspondent Josh Lederman supposed, on “pragmatism” but that it could hardly be said to have existed at all.
