President Biden ended the war in Afghanistan by letting the Taliban win. Over the next few years we’ll see the consequences. If our mission was to keep it from being used as a base for terrorism then it was working. If the mission was to make it into a modern democracy we failed.
The withdrawal was a mess as those things always are. The mess was exacerbated by some boneheaded decisions by military and civilian leaders. Often times the choices confronting you are all bad and you choose the least bad. That the other side was more effective and that our intelligence was faulty is not unexpected. But it is sad. Now we just have to hope that no more terrorism will be allowed to emanate from there by the “former” terrorists now in charge of the country.
Some people should face consequences for not having done a better job of predicting and preparing for the collapse of the Afghani army.
“The Americans have all of the watches but we have all of the time.” Another Afghan saying proves true.
