I actually agree with you. Our prolonged presence there was a mistake and to think any withdrawl under any administration would look any different is a mistake.
I'm personally okay with being done with that shit hole forever. However, it won't be long before we bomb that place into moon dust like we did Mosul in 2017.
It was never going to last forever, but this was not the way it had to end. Supposedly, POTUS personally made the call for a complete pullout over the objections of Miller, Milley, and others, who wanted 2,500 sets of boots on the ground until a negotiated settlement was reached. Now he's going to have to own the fallout, because that IMO was the right COA. Set the stage for an orderly withdrawal, with a CONPLAN in your hip pocket to flex to if the Taliban welshed on the deal. At best, you get a jump on the emergency destruction plan and the SIV process for those that needed it.
It's one thing to say "we needed out, and this was going to happen anyway," but I'd give my left nut to be a fly on the wall in certain conference rooms in Taipei, Beijing, and Moscow after this fiasco. The entire narrative now is "America can't protect her allies," and dollars to donuts it's not just Islamic terrorists who are updating what they think is feasible right now. Because if you think this didn't utterly fuck our credibility with potential allies, think again.
