the article says 100K ‘americans’ got out but a few paragraphs later says only 6K were in Kabul when the tally man walked in, with 1500 to go. So which is it?
Reality? My grandmother's best friend while growing up was an Army Nurse, when WWII began she was in Manila, when Manila fell she went to Corregidor. When Corregidor was captured, to Bataan. She spent 2+ years in a Japanese POW camp. You did not have to explain reality to her. She published a book about it. I have a couple of autographed copies. She retired from the Army as a Lt.Col.
Comparing Afghanistan to Corregidor is like comparing apples and pyramids. Corregidor, like the Alamo, fell due to the enemy's overwhelming force. Afghanistan fell due to ineptitude, cowardice and betrayal.
Biden/Harris are INCOMPETENT IDIOTS.
Thousands American civilians left behind, 7K Taliban prisoners set free, $85 Billion in equipment left behind, Bagram and all COPS & JCOPS abandoned. Biden/Harris and all those leftist Democrats who voted for them OWN THIS DEBACLE. THEY SHOULD BE TRIED FOR TREASON AND PUBLICALLY HANGED!
There was an OPORD and it wasn’t followed. I was in NW Afghanistan for a year as a US Army Combat Infantryman.
1) Get all American civilians out first.
2) Get out all Taliban prisoners (CONAIR).
3) Get out all aircraft, vehicles, and equipment.
4) Get out the Terps who helped us.
5) Get all US Military out.
6) Drop JDAM’s and MOAB’s on ALL our air bases, COPS, and JCOPS (preferably just when the Taliban have moved in).
7) Close down Bagram and all other air bases.
8) Fly away and don’t come back
George W. Bush. How much blame does he bare for this? He wanted to get Saddam for Daddy Bush because he didn’t get to go after Saddam. Daddy went weak kneed and called off the First Gulf War. But, that war should have been handled differently. You cannot make a democracy out of a bunch of 7th Century minded peoples who do not want to come into the current century. They still live back in Moo-hommid’s time frame. To be like ole Moo. Only the ones with the oil money so they can buy their big boats to go cruising around the Med and hit Paris and London on the weekends. They are the only ones who are close to this century. The rest are still in their tents and fighting among their selves as they have for centuries and centuries. We do not need to spill any more blood to invade Afghanistan. Enough already. What did we accomplish? Kill thousands of our finest young soldiers and now we leave and the bad guys are back in charge after 20 years of waiting. They do that well, wait. They are not like us, needing it right freaking now.
Sadly, when lurking around some of the more radical democrat web sites, their people simply want cut and run, bring our boys home, no matter what the future cost. To hell with Americans still there. They are on their own.
My memories of the past is the future cost is always high!
Those responsible for this debacle must be held accountable. Joe Biden must resign and all those military and policy advisers who created this mess must be ousted. President Kamala has neither the intellect nor leadership to run this country and we will be adrift as a nation until the 2022 elections. Praying that the GOP sweeps Congress in 2022 and purges itself of the Rinos the business of rebuilding the nation can commence. Impeaching Kamala while tempting should not be a priority. With a veto proof majority the GOP should take charge and turn the country back from the brink of socialism. New GOP leaders should emerge looking to the 2024 presidential race. Trump is too galvanizing and would be the one thing that could unite the Democrats in 2024. New candidates should emerge…maybe de Santos or Noem
The war crime really belongs to Biden. Unless he’s like the guy caught feeding people to alligators who blames the alligators.
We could have had a successful pullout without the humiliation if it had been planned properly. Defeat, I don't think so, if we withdrew on our terms I'd call the mission a success as we haven't had a domestic terror attack from these terrorists in 2 decades.