Afghanistan showed Biden unbowed
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Hours after the last US military flight out of Kabul, President Joe Biden began a meeting in the White House Situation Room with praise.
"You all did a helluva job," Biden told his top national security aides, according to a White House official. He feels the same way about his own performance. His conviction was not melted by a weeks-long blowtorch of criticism for the chaotic conclusion to the nation's 20-year military involvement in Afghanistan. The flames, as broad as they were intense, came from Democrats as well as Republicans, Americans who voted for him and those who didn't.
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