Dear Mr President

I, like many, watched your inauguration from afar with such hope. The “orange man” as my 6 year old called him, had left the building. You, Mr Biden, were a man for the people – for the people who didn’t have a voice – for the people who couldn’t afford healthcare or an Ivy League education. You were less about guns and more about people. Until Afghanistan.

Joe, how could you get it so wrong? Don’t blame the Talbian or ISIS-K for the death of your militia, look at the blood on your own hands [instead of your watch, perhaps]. And why, Mr President, are your marines lives worth more than those of innocent Afghani civilians, now condemned to death because of your actions?

You said these years in Afghanistan weren’t about nation building? Really? So twenty years was just hanging out making sure the United States wouldn’t be attacked again? That is more than shortsighted, it’s insulting to every girl who set foot in a university in Afghanistan, secure in the knowledge that she was safe.

In the Democratic Party literature you talk about “healing the soul of America” – it’s a shame you had such disregard for the soul of Afghanistan – a country with a depth of history much greater than your own, and a country brutalised by division and western carnage.

Your latest address makes zero reference to the innocent people who remain in Afghanistan. Tearing people from their homeland because you “wanted out” at any cost, isn’t standing for women’s rights or any humanitarian rights – the “airlifts” wouldn’t have been necessary if you’d have been willing to extend the August 31st deadline.

You might think you’ve kept America safe, but you are far from being great again. The world breathed a sigh of relief when Trump was voted out, yet for thousands of Afghani children and families, yours is the name that will go down in history as wrecking their homeland and childhood.

You couldn’t have got it more wrong.

Sincerely,

The rest of the world