biden's military generals advised against this move, they wanted to keep a force in the country to help stabilise eight so they were unhappy anyway but the execution is what is getting the criticism now. why did the administration seem so unprepared? why was the draw down so fast? why had they not anticipated the speed of the taliban takeover? intelligence officials had predicted the withdrawal of the us would cause the withdrawal of the us would cause the government to collapse but not so quickly, and they also thought it could result in a division of power, different power centres in the country, not a full taliban takeover. so there are concerned about security, whether terror attacks will be more likely, unfavourable comparisons being made to the us exit from saigon. the biden administration defends itself by saying it's hand was forced by