The American withdrawal from Afghanistan was one of the worst military debacles since Publius Quinctilius Varus ordered his men to march through the Teutoburg Forest in the year 9 AD, assuring them, “Don’t worry, boys, there’s not a German within a hundred leagues of here.” One of the worst mistakes in this entire Charlie Foxtrot was the abandonment of Bagram Air Base, which forced the remaining personnel to withdraw from the commercial airport in Kabul; Bagram, not Kabul, was a secure base and would have been the more logical place to evacuate from. But the Biden administration claimed that a Taliban takeover was not inevitable, arguing:
Asked if he sees any parallels between the withdrawals from Vietnam Afghanistan, Biden responds, “None whatsoever. Zero. … The Taliban is not the south — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms…
