Last week’s issue of The Economist featured a column which gave Trump a medal for being “better than Obama” on Afghanistan even though the author couldn’t point to any meaningful change in tactics. Part of the justification for the medal was the apparent (to the author, at least) improvement on the battlefield. A week later, however, the Taliban took over Ghazni.
Whoops! Does Trump have to give the medal back? Will we see a mea culpa in next week’s issue? Not likely.
More on Afghanistan in the following days.