US President Joe Biden will hope to pivot from the Afghan disaster to his domestic agenda SAUL LOEB AFP
France 24: After Afghanistan, Biden stakes presidency on domestic battles
This has been a miserable summer for Joe Biden but with the last troops out of Afghanistan the Democrat will now hope to relaunch his struggling presidency back home.
From the initial chaos in which Afghans tried clinging to departing US planes, to last Thursday's deaths of 13 US service members in a suicide bombing, the evacuation from Taliban-controlled Kabul has been ugly and traumatic.
How much it has hurt Biden politically is the question ricocheting around the White House, Congress and a divided nation.
A longtime former senator and two-term vice president, Biden long boasted of his foreign policy expertise.
With close allies like Britain upset over the abrupt Afghan pullout and China mocking US policy from the sidelines, those claims are now tarnished. Some Republicans have demanded impeachment and government resignations.
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WNU Editor: It is telling that many Democrats have been silent in the past few weeks while Afghanistan fell apart. Even Democrat leaders like Schumer and Pelosi, aside a few public appearances praising President Biden when the evacuations began, have gone silent this past week.
They are politicians.
They know that this has cost them politically, and that President Biden is toxic right now.
I also suspect that their internal polls must be terrible right now.
