massively bunkled in terms of how we got out of afghanistan. there was and there is wide agreement in the united states that we should leave afghanistan militarily, but we never were intending to leave diplomatically, we certainly did not intend to leave the way we are now, hastily, having to burn documents, fighting for the lives of americans and the afghans who helped them, not to mention all the internationals and other afghans that helped basically civil society, media outlets like yours. we re in a situation we didn t need to be in. the biden administration had already decided, may 1st, the deadline the trump administration agreed with afghanistan, wasn t going to cut it. they picked august 31st. they should have gone into the time of year when the taliban isn t fighting, during the winter. they also would have had more