“He fights!” they say. But not when it matters.
Donald Trump has decided that the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is a winning issue in the election he is currently losing to Kamala Harris. And the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was, indeed, a fiasco, possibly the lowest moment in the generally feckless and incompetent administration of Joe Biden, something like a humiliating reenactment of the flight from Saigon.
Kevin D. Williamson is national correspondent at The Dispatch and is based in Virginia. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 15 years as a writer and editor at National Review, worked as the theater critic at the New Criterion, and had a long career in local newspapers. He is also a writer in residence at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. When Kevin is not reporting on the world outside Washington for his Wanderland newsletter, you can find him at the rifle range or reading a book about literally almost anything other than politics.
