I voted for Biden very willingly and if pressed would do it again over the other option at the time. With that said, this is a colossal failure. How do you not evacuate US staff and the afghan workers who helped them before pulling out the troops. Intelligence expected the Taliban to win, just for it to take 3+ months for it to happen. If this was publicly available information and you are an Afghan soldier why the heck would you fight? Just surrender and join the Taliban, why die fighting the inevitable? Of course the Taliban swept through with very limited resistance. To risk US lives because you did not want to insult the current doomed afghan regime is insane. Absolut failure and a monumental loss to US standing in the world as well as the morale of US troops. I would call for the resignation of all intelligence leaders involved in this assessment. I might go so far as to call for Biden's resignation.
"a monumental loss to US standing in the world"...
I'm sorry, but that has been long gone since trump.
Anyone who served over there knew what was going to happen when the states pulled out, none of this is terribly surprising.
The entire time of occupation, ground level has been saying over and over how much corruption is happening. Just getting peeps in site for more than 8 hours without someone to watch them has been near impossible.
End of the day, this is the expected result when you invade a country and then leave it.
I'm under the impression that this administration was largely just following through the plan that the previous administration set in motion. The Biden admin is flushing when they should have plunged.
Apart from the fact that Biden is president and has ownership over his orders, we should also remember this was NOT the Trump plan. The Trump plan had a phased withdrawal that was contingent on commitments being met by the Taliban and the Afghan government. It was also left very open ended to allow the US to define its exit conditions. The plan was definitely not to just pull out wholesale and let an entire country fall to chaos and lose its democratic process. One of the chief conditions was that the Taliban would several all times with terrorist groups, and work to monitor and eliminate them. A UN report earlier this year confirmed the Taliban still is closely tied to Al Qaeda (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taliban-has-kept-close-ti...), which would have blocked the Trump plan from being enacted.
