Who are the retards that ever though the Afghan government would fight? At least half of them are Taliban.
Massive intel failure.
Even us peons knew the eventual outcome.
US civilians should have been evacuated 6 months ago, and at the latest on Trump’s original May date.
Nevertheless, out is better than in.
It may look messy, sloppy, and like a loss from this side right now...
but the real loss is the Afghan people. Their own failure to step up into their opportunity.
If they weren’t going to fight for it...well ...
20 years of Nation building crumbles in less than a month. The loss rests squarely on the Afghan people’s refusal to embrace and be willing to fight to keep their freedom.
There’s plenty of blame to go around, but the core must rest with those who held and wasted the opportunity. What if every adult refugee had decided to fight, instead of flee?
Afghanistan was never ours to hold.