FLASHBACK: Biden media endorsements in 2020 touted his 'rich grasp' of foreign policy

President Joe Biden is taking fierce media criticism for a bungled U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, but media endorsements of his candidacy in 2020 gushed over his foreign policy expertise and competent governing.

Yet part of Biden's appeal to the press in 2020 was his supposed foreign policy chops after decades in the U.S. Senate and eight years as vice president, although Obama Secretary of Defense Robert Gates once remarked Biden had "been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." The New York Times wrote in its endorsement editorial that Biden would "stock his administration with competent, qualified, principled individuals" and said he had the "necessary chops" to restore the country's global reputation.