Atlantic staff writer Franklin Foer recounts an unflinching look at the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in his upcoming book.
The chaotic and violent withdrawal from Afghanistan is well-known, but in his new book “The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future,” Franklin Foer recounts the previously untold timeline of events leading up to the withdrawal and the aftermath of it. | Jim Watson/Pool/AP PhotoBy the end of the U.S.
“So much of the commentary felt overheated to him. He said to an aide: ‘Either the press is losing its mind, or I am,’” Foer writes. When National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan relayed the news to Biden that former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, he writes, Biden exploded in frustration and said, “Give me a break.”: when dozens of Afghans climbed onto the side of a jet to escape the country.
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