Biden Hit With 2 ‘Pinocchios’ for ‘Sloppy’ Language About Afghanistan

President Joe Biden earned “two Pinocchios” over the language he used to describe the United States’ mission in 🇦🇫Afghanistan.

The Washington Post’s fact-checker Glenn Kessler noted that Biden told ABC News’ George Stephanopolous that the U.S. invaded 🇦🇫Afghanistan for two reasons, “One, to get Bin Laden, and two, to wipe out as best we could, and we did, the al-Qaeda.”

“Then what happened? Began to morph into the notion that, instead of having a counterterrorism capability to have small forces there in — or in the region to be able to take on al-Qaeda if it tried to reconstitute, we decided to engage in nation building. In nation building. That never made any sense to me,” Biden added.

Kessler noted that Biden “is summarizing two decades of U.S. policy in a few sentences, and it’s unclear exactly what time period he is referring to when he says the policy ‘began to morph.’” However, he said the “the phrase that really jumped out at us is Biden’s assertion that nation-building ‘never made any sense to me.'”

The fact-checker went on to share that he was the Post’s diplomatic correspondent for a decade following the 9/11 terror attacks.

He said, “Our recollection was that the Bush administration initially wanted to have only a light footprint in Afghanistan