The commander of the airport operations needs to be dragged before a Court Martial. The gates were a cluster f*ck and invitation to suicide bombing. WTF do they teach in officer schools these days?
The commander was “just following orders”. Follow the chain of command, up to and beyond the hypothetical CIC to who is giving the orders in his name.
I expect that U.S. troops will be back in Afghanistan, under UN Peacekeeping forces, with Chinese officers. But that won’t effectively be any different from 2021, if you follow the chain of command.Except that the orders will be quite different. Lot of mines have to be mined. EVs won’t work on fairy dust.