This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021. I'm Caleb Brown.

President Trump left President Joe Biden at least one gift when he left office,

a timeline for a full departure of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

The question now, will Joe Biden accept the gift and take the opportunity to exit America's

longest war, or will he blow it and end up owning the war and make

himself culpable for even more lost blood and treasure.

Cato's Doug Bandau and Will Ruger comment.

Will I want to start with you.

What did we know from Joe Biden versus Donald Trump

when it comes to Afghanistan at this time in 2020?

Well, I think the worry that a lot of us had in the movement from Trump on Afghanistan to

Biden is that it would be part of an elite primacist restoration and that the Afghan policy would follow a broader

restoration of the status quo anti-Trump when it came to the endless wars and the grand strategy

approach that we had seen over the last 20 to 30 years you know and and we had

seen I think, you know, all the problems associated with that that

contributed to not only the rise of Donald Trump as a candidate in 2015-16, but also in the progressive side to seeing people

like Sanders and Warren and others talking about some of the issues that have been problematic about our foreign policy and gaining traction.

So you're seeing a broader array of people both on the left and the right that want to change in our foreign policy.

They express that as well as other issues obviously in support for

Sanders and Trump in 2016 and again in 2020. But now you're seeing I think what many people fear is that there would be a

reversion to that primacist approach and you see that in the staffing that is

that has come I mean there have been some good people I think that have been

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