I rarely watch the news, but wanted to watch Biden's address to the nation since this is such a enormous event, and I decided to flip on CNN to see how they would respond to his speech and just their comments on the event in general. I was also working during the time so just happened to have CNN on for several hours after his address. Just about everything I heard was critical of Biden. Both his plan (or lack there of) of pulling out of Afghanistan and his address to the nation. The Whitehouse press also continued to put pressure on some of the other guys answering questions, basically asking them if this was a planning failure or an intelligence failure or both.

I was quite surprised.

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