In 1980 Henry Kissinger characterized the hapless Jimmy Carter administration thusly.
The Carter administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the developing world since the end of the Second World War.
The Biden administration’s Afghan response appears to be something like:
You think Carter’s feat was extraordinary? Hold my beer.
