are telling you that we can do that, and that we could ve exit afghanistan without chaos and dishonor actually knows how to do that. when my cousin johnny went to west point before being shipped off to vietnam and never coming back, west point didn t teach him how to lose a war and exit a country gracefully, they still don t have a clue on how to honorably exit a war that the american military loses, no one knows how to do that. it is not up to us how orderly the american exit from afghanistan s, that is entirely up to the taliban now. the brilliant book the best and the brightest told the story of how the best in the brightest minds from the ivy league and american business, and the foreign policy establishment were infected with the delusion, during the vietnam war, that they could manage everything.