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Originally Posted by Dezzy

Biden's inflexibility is just another one of his failures. He's too busy trying to tickle the balls of the right wing when they'll hate him regardless to do the right thing by the afghan people who risked everything to help the US and UK's efforts.

I don't think it's just that with Biden, he specifically clashed with Obama over what to do in Afghanistan.

Obama wanted to be even more involved in Afghanistan, pile on a much larger occupying force and properly eliminate groups that would be a threat on withdrawal, and properly put systems in place that would remain robust when they did finally leave Afghanistan.

Biden wanted minimal involvement and a full withdrawal ASAP.

In fact Biden is one of the main reasons Obama didn't get his way with increased presence.

So I don't think his personal position on Afghanistan is just trying to appeal to the right... his previous politics suggest that it's something he's been in support of for over a decade.

Which on the other hand also puts to bed the "it's because he's old and senile and making terrible errors" part of the argument - he held the same overall position when he was Veep, a spring chicken in his mid 60's.