Lauren, your analysis is absolutely correct. Thank you for helping me understand why I was so frustrated, watching as the righties and the GOP so self-righteously ramped up their chorus of protest, hell-bent on blaming Joe for everything.

And the update is that our President is now sending reinforcements to support our people who are still hanging in the balance.

This is one situation, Lauren, where it is helpful to have an Establishment politician, Joe Biden, in charge. Because he understands how to tweak the unwieldy machine of US power to respond correctively to its own blundering.