Online Public Relations Thoughts

President Biden's plan and action to leave Afghanistan has become unraveled with the death of 13 service personnel in a suicide bombing.  Although he has communicated an implacable will to redress the murders, there is little he can do now with the collapse of the country and pull-out of troops.  The affair has left an indelible stain on his foreign policy and the image of America as the international leader.  He now has critics on both sides of the Congressional aisle and is left only with words to fend them off.  It is a bad position to be in and Biden must be concerned that it will bleed over into his domestic agenda.  Afghanistan has become a major distraction that will continue even after the evacuation is over.  Journalists will find people who missed the airlift and are trapped in the country.  Pundits will speak out.  Republicans will investigate.  It is a nightmare scenario and it is all on the President's plate.