Trump's troop withdrawal from Afghanistan may put Biden in a tough spot

Biden may find that one of his first acts as president will be to send more troops to a war he wanted to end 11 years ago

As President Donald Trump tries to end America’s longest war, he has settled on a compromise. Instead of withdrawing all US troops from Afghanistan by Christmas, as he boasted in a tweet in October, he will be leaving behind a small counterterrorism force.  
 

It’s tempting to view the development with a sense of relief. A full withdrawal from Afghanistan, or for that matter Iraq, would have been a humiliation for the US on the world stage and a likely prelude to the collapse of two elected governments for which America has invested significant blood and treasure.

That said, avoiding calamity