If anyone was unsure just what the President would say at the conclusion of the 20-year war, the answer was a simple, "more of the same."

Biden came out swinging with the same platitudes about what a success the whole operation was: 120,000 evacuated! ... including 5,000 Americans. So who were the 115,000? "All translators!" quipped Tucker Carlson before adding, "No, they all needed translators." Indeed the very next night Carlson produced a tweet from the Alexandria, VA Health Department "looking for Pashto/Dari speakers to assist with translation support for recent arrivals."

We got the same old saw about "the devil made me do it" blaming Trump for his woes. Anyone who is familiar with the situation knows the Trump argument doesn't wash. Watch Jack Keane's video assessment of that excuse and read Andrew C. McCarthy's excellent analysis in National Review which lays bare Biden's 'non mea culpa.' But it does beg the question, "if Biden's withdrawal was such a resounding success, why is he blaming anyone let alone Trump?"

Biden even went so far as to, yet again, invoke the memory of his late son Beau as a victim of his service in Iraq. He's done it in every major speech he's given since being pried out of his Camp David vacation retreat on August 17th to address the horrors of the weekend past when everything went to hell. It seemed a little over the top, his grieving about his personal loss in a speech to the nation, but particularly so on the day after 13 service men lost their lives. Beau Biden died from brain cancer 6 years after his return from Iraq at the age of 46. It's been the topic of conversation of late and riled some families of those killed in the line of duty on August 26.