Biden has wanted the U.S. to pull the plug on Afghanistan for years. Doing it has consequences.

Last month, President Biden vowed that his decision to pull American forces out of Afghanistan would never end in a repeat of the infamous helicopter evacuation from the U.S. Embassy in Saigon at the ignominious close of the Vietnam War. “There’s going to be no circumstance when you’re going to see people being lifted off the roof,” he said.

But the drama in Afghanistan is now closer to that scenario than Biden might have envisioned, as the president found himself ordering thousands of troops back into Kabul to help evacuate American diplomats from the bunkered U.S. Embassy.

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