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RebE > Biden listens to his competent advisors
not true factually: It is well documented that military did not like the idea of leaving Afghanistan in all administrations, and Biden was advising Obama not to listen to them long time ago.
left-wing reports describe a different picture, unfortunately: his advisors are first selected to conform to his views (see McCain objecting to Blinken appointment some years ago including his views on Afganistan), and also group-think where advisors are aware of his views and not contradicting him, partly because it is futile, partly because it is bad for their careers. Note that most advisors raised up by being Biden advisors and no other independent experience. This is as old as Sanhedrin discussions of Bar Kamtzah ..
One of the articles mentions, inter alia, a similar circumstance during Obama admin in 2014 when advisors came to 2014 meeting on Russia with certain ideas, but when they heard President advocating the opposite, they did not present their views.
Compare with Trump who had a number of people who contradicted him, sometimes he listened to them, sometimes he did not. sometimes he was right, sometimes he was not. Most of that became public before there was an action, so there were proper discussions in the society. Abrahamic accords and giving lethal weapons to Ukraine was done against State dept ideas, dealing with IS was done by allowing Dept of Defense do what they were not allowed by Obama.