James Jay Carafano: Biden's drone disaster gives Americans a bigger problem to worry about

We hardly needed more confirmation that President Joe Biden’s plans for protecting Americans and their interests are inept. 

The Defense Department has promised a full investigation of this incident. That’s the appropriate manner to start to hold people accountable or determine if avoidable mistakes were made, why the intelligence assessment was so off, and if the commander’s on the ground depended too much on the good graces of the Taliban. Meanwhile, Americans have bigger issues to ponder. At the time of the strike, the White House cited the operation as evidence that, despite precipitously abandoning Afghanistan, the Biden team will have the challenge of dealing with global terrorism well in hand. That’s because the U.S. will rely on "over the horizon" operations, striking without a footprint on the ground using assets winging in from out of theater. Even before this drone strike went awry, there was plenty of reason to question the president’s promise of easy answers to hard problems.