[https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/28/politics/biden-behind-scenes-crisis-attack-kabul-afghanistan/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/28/politics/biden-behind-scenes-crisis-attack-kabul-afghanistan/index.html) >"When Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley informed President Joe Biden just past 9:15 a.m. on Thursday that terrorists had detonated a suicide bomb at the Kabul airport gates, the President was angry and dismayed — but not surprised."