https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/23/deadlines-burn-biden-506571
If Joe Biden’s withdrawal plan from Afghanistan has appeared chaotically rushed, it’s a product of his own making.
The White House has been clear for weeks that there wouldn’t be a “mission accomplished moment” to end America’s longest war. But after initially pushing back the timeline to pull out of the country, the president had been adamant about marking the war’s end by a date certain: Aug. 31. And it quickly became the latest example of how the White House’s devotion to deadlines can backfire.