The crisis of accountability.
It’s been three years.
It seems like yesterday…and then sometimes it seems like forever ago.
Watching as Afghanistan collapsed around the Baghdad Bobs in the Biden administration, whose talking heads from TV briefing rooms gave lie to the horrific scenes coming out of Kabul in the frantic, terrifying chaos of “What do you mean, ‘the Taliban will be in the city in a week‘?”
…Kabul fell quickly. Taliban fighters faced little resistance as they entered the capital on the main roads. Afghan officials — including the country’s president — fled. And as the militants took over the presidential palace, so began a new era of Taliban rule.
Intelligence assessments did not predict such a swift collapse. In June, U.S. officials had said Kabul could capitulate within six to 12 months after U.S. withdrawal, leaving many stunned and unprepared when it fell…
