CNN moderators probed very little on international defense issues and foreign policy.
Most of the commentary after the first presidential debate on June 27 focused on President Joe Biden’s frailty and incoherence and not on another significant area: a defense of his national security policies. During the few exchanges about Ukraine and Afghanistan, Biden offered up mostly ramblings.
When challenged by Donald Trump on the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, Biden garbled something about getting “100,000 Americans and others out during that airlift.” During an answer to a question on the economy and inflation, Biden replied, “The truth is, I’m the only president this century that doesn’t have any – this – this decade – doesn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world like he did [referring to Trump].” In…
