The 1%’ers had established the cut-and-run strategy from the beginning.
Believing otherwise is naive.
As opposed to stay and do what? Fight and die for a people who don't want us there? Prop up a corrupt government that doesn't have the support of the populace? We failed to learn from history. Countries have gone into Afghanistan for hundreds of years figuring that they could change it and remake everything for the better, or at least pacify the damned place. And every attempt has been a miserable failure. Ours is just the latest. Time to cut our loses and get out. Sooner rather than later.