A lot of talk about how inevitable the end was. Can we not agree that no one in their right mind would want to see what happened these last few days, AND that it was preventable in large measure? Because the sun rising is inevitable does not make a filling breakfast inevitable. There is a solid factual based argument the it was inevitable the Afghan government would fold some day in the future after we left. But it was not inevitable that it fold in days. The withdrawal hardly required that the air support I am told in these pages is still in place was not tapped. It was not necessary that we leave operable equipment behind, and it absolutely was not inevitable that we have the mess we have in the evacuation. Insisting that this outcome was inevitable without clarification allows monumental incompetence to go without criticism or consequence.