It is an iron law that if governments put out important documents just ahead of a long holiday weekend there is something fishy about them. So it was with President Biden’s decision to release a report on America’s 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan on Thursday, before the Easter weekend. The White House press corps had about ten minutes to read it before a briefing where the first questioner, channelling Gilbert and Sullivan’s modern major-general, described it as the ‘very definition of a modern major holiday news dump.
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