Shankar Narayan
1 min readApr 9, 2024

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I know I did not even get into Afganistan. Biden should have fired the entire nat sec team that failed to do what he wanted them to do

This is from Brett Bruen, former Obama advisor:

"President Joe Biden needs to shake up his national security team.

The disaster that unfolded in Afghanistan is illustrative of other major issues at the White House. The people, plans and processes the president has put in place to keep America safe are not working.

Those he has chosen for key positions have repeatedly failed to challenge their own assumptions. It sadly led to the most unnecessarily embarrassing day in the history of the National Security Council.

The national security adviser has two jobs. As the name suggests, they are the last and ideally closest counselor to the president in the Situation Room.

Their second duty is to translate the commander in chief’s decisions and direction into practical policies. Sometimes that requires speaking truth to power. On all of these scores, the current occupant of the office appears to have failed".

He also had a word of advice for the President: "President Biden needs to fire his national security adviser and several other senior leaders who oversaw the botched execution of our withdrawal from Afghanistan".

Had he taken Brett's advice, I don't think we will be in such a messed up place today.

It is still not late.

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Shankar Narayan
Shankar Narayan

Written by Shankar Narayan

He didn't care what he had or what he had left, he cared only about what he must do.

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