We all remember the chaos we saw in the final week of August, 2021 – infants being tossed over razor wire, thousands of people crashing the perimeter of Hamid Karzai International Airport, trying to stop a moving C-17 cargo plane on the tarmac trying to evac the lottery winners that won a seat, and the falling body of someone so terrified of life in Afghanistan reverting to the control of the Taliban that he figured a better option was to hang onto the wheel well as the plane took off, only to black out once airspeed, lack of oxygen at altitude, air temperatures, and retracting landing gear conspired to plunge him to his death.
It was without doubt the worst foreign policy debacle this country has gone through, and it was one that did not have to happen. We had a perfectly defensible air base at Bagram, Biden decided to move out the military before getting all the civilians out,…
