This isn’t MacArthur at the Yalu, Kasserine Pass, Battle of Long Island grade stuff

[sdholloway56]

just a messy withdrawal with a collapsing ally.

Even if the media is breathlessly treating it as such.

[sdholloway56]

No US casualties thus far.

As compared to the above examples where poor leadership led to huge loss of life and strategic defeat.

[sam1wiseone]

Strictly at the mercy of the Taliban. 

Just hide,  you can't make the stench of failure go away.

[sdholloway56]

Me thinks you trashyfolk got that a bit wrong.

[sdholloway56]

Not surprising that a lot of the cousin humpers think the Taliban is kinda groovy.

[sdholloway56]

Does anyone think that 2500 troops were going to hold a perimeter after the Afghan Army flipped?

Said government that was cut out of talks between the Taliban and the Benedict Arnold administration.

[sdholloway56]

Trashyfolk can be kinda stupid.

Cant recall who the old hand was who said the day of MacArthur’s return to DC was the only time he ever felt like a revolution could happen.

Even though he’d screwed up a fair bit of the Pacific War and just generaled the worst defeat ever suffered by the US in the field, they loved the idea of a strongman on a white horse.

[rickgthf]

  Another couple of weeks ought to get most of them. The US has extended the perimeter around the airport, which means it'll easier for refugees to get to the airport.  I don't think the Taliban wants to confront US forces, that would just give Biden an excuse to return and punish them some more.

[sdholloway56]

The media is pulling the same crap that got us in in the first place- all the breathless reporting about suffering, abuse of rights etc. 

As before- sure- but what’s the plan?

[Edmund55]

A little defensive there NQX?  I understand your embarrassment with our dear leader NQX, and your trying to protect him and his worst American foreign policy blunder in decades - but you can't say you weren't warned about old senile joe's incompetence.