cONGREESIONAL HEARINGS WAS TO WITNESS a quRTET OF BIDEN Vassla.....the Charge of the very Light Self serving Brigade

The Biden Quartet were  hard to watch,  such rings of ego steel around them

defnding their tumultuous debacle in Afghanistan

they came across as

Vassals -  .eg  holders of position by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance

to a doddering incapable leader 

It is all very Soviet Politics in 50/60s 

an ageing leader held in position by  apparatchiks