Does the Kabul catastrophe spell doom for President Biden?

The ‘shockingly naive way’ he went about withdrawing US troops certainly reflects badly on him, says The Wall Street Journal

President Joe Biden
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There are some disasters that US presidents never recover from, said William McGurn in The Wall Street Journal. In the case of Jimmy Carter, it was the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, which left his administration looking weak and inept, and contributed to his election defeat a year later. Will the “debacle” now unfolding in Afghanistan likewise doom Joe Biden’s presidency?

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