This story was excerpted from the July 9 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. The US has been staying just a little bit longer for two decades -- what good will hanging around do now? The President also implied that the war-torn country had pretty much always been a mess, so if it falls apart again it will be returning to a historic norm. Then Biden looked his country in the eye and asked a question that weighs especially heavily on this commander in chief, the first for decades to have had a child who served overseas in a war zone. Would the people who want the US to stay in Afghanistan send their own kids off to combat there?

Source: CNN July 09, 2021 18:33 UTC