...that we wanted to get out."
This is from US Central Command referring to the fact that the last US troops just left Kabul, with Americans who wanted to be evacuated that were left behind.
Only the Good Lord knows how many Afghani allies were of course left behind.
"If there's American citizens left, we're gonna stay to get them all out." - Joe Biden
I'm trying to think of a darker day in my lifetime for the United States from its own decisions. Even in the Fall of Saigon we did manged to get the Americans out. We didn't even manage that this time, and undoubtedly left vastly more at risk Afghanis than we did in Vietnam, though we left a lot in Vietnam.
This was a semi-chaotic surrender and retreat against the advice of military and intelligence advisors, all to meet a political timetable and claim political credit for a meaningless anniversary.
It's sickening. America has been betrayed by its elites yet again, expending the blood and treasure of its common citizens while they vacation and watch us suffer defeat.
May these people join Robert McNamara and the Harvard Whiz Kids and all the rest from Vietnam in their own special place in hell.
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