Media and public could gradually lose interest in Biden’s Afghanistan catastrophe

How much press coverage will Afghanistan generate a month from now, or in three or six months? Will it slide onto a back burner as the press cooks up new storylines involving the pandemic, the economy, the trillion-dollar aid bills, and the inevitable political controversies and mini-scandals?

And whether the number is 100, 200, or larger, the unthinkable reality is we did leave Americans behind, along with tens of thousands of Afghan allies. The liberal editorial page of The Washington Post says flatly: "This is a moral disaster, one attributable not to the actions of military and diplomatic personnel in Kabul — who have been courageous and professional, in the face of deadly dangers — but to mistakes, strategic and tactical, by Mr. Biden and his administration." One such American, an interpreter for the military, told CNN’s Chris Cuomo that she is terrified for herself and her children: "They left us to whom? To those people who are always wanting to kill us? ... If Americans could not help me when they were on the ground, how will they help me now when no one is here?"