A Lesson from the Talmud For Our Incompetent Leaders

President Joe Biden is good at making bold, self-assured statements, regardless of reality. While desperate Afghanis were running after U.S. evacuation planes on the tarmac at Kabul airport, he told Americans he stood "squarely" behind his bungled approach to withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan. And while claiming that "the buck stops with me," he blamed everyone but himself for the fiasco. Perhaps he missed that even his own side took him to task.