Jack Weinstein, a former Pentagon official and an expert on international security, called Biden’s decision to leave Afghanistan “extremely courageous.”
“This president had two decisions to make, and those are the decisions that all his predecessors had to make: Do you stay in Afghanistan forever? Or do you cut your losses and move on to what is something more strategic and vital to the United States?” said Weinstein, now a professor in Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies.