And the second they try, Taliban anti-aircraft missiles will destroy them.
But you are right, this is a management level fuckup. More specifically, it's a leadership level fuckup. I'm not just talking Biden, I'm saying that the people involved have a demonstrated lack of leadership capabilities.
- Everyone knew that going into Afghanistan was a stupid fucking move, but no one wanted to be the guy who told the Military Industrial guys no.
- Everyone knew that Nation Building doesn't work, but no one wanted to be the guy who told the NeoCon retards that they were wrong.
- Everyone knew that it was time to leave 10 years ago, but no one wanted to be the one who wanted to end the reindeer games over there.
- Everyone knew that the Afghanistan Army wasn't working out, but no one wanted to risk being called racist or a quitter.
- Everyone knew that refusing to hold to the agreed upon leaving timeframe was a bad idea, but no one wanted to tell the TDS suffering idiots in the new admin that they had to hold to it despite it being "Trumpian."
- Everyone knew that the situation on the ground was deteriorating, fast, but no one wanted to be the guy who sounded the alarm.
- Everyone knew that the billions of dollars in left behind equipment should have been destroyed, but no one wanted to have that on their budget sheet.
- Everyone knew that the military should have gotten people out first, but no one wanted to tell the chickenshit military leaders who were bailing to wait.
- Everyone knew that the Taliban was going to take over the second we left, but no one wanted to be the one that "caused" that by leaving.
Leadership means making a choice, seeing it through, and accepting the responsibility for that choice. In every instance of the last 20 years of this shitshow, the people involved have done ANYTHING other than making a choice, seeing it through, and taking responsibility for it.
For another good example of this, look at Covid. We went into lockdown -- universal permanent medical quarantine -- not because the science said so, but because it was the only safe option for the leaders. Any other option would see hundreds of deaths be "their fault." Then we sat in lockdown for a year because no one wanted to risk undoing it and suddenly having those deaths be their fault, with the desperate "the vaccine" being a literal magic pill to let them escape responsibility for their decisions. And even now we're completely rudderless, being led around by the loudest most insane Karens because no one else wants to risk being behind the wheel or shouting the Karens down.
Our entire country has a generation of "leaders" who can't lead, that cannot take even the most basic responsibility for their decisions and actions.
God fucking save us if we ever actually need to react to something like China or a real pandemic.