For all the effort invested, in the end the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban was inevitable. Everything the Taliban assured negotiators they wouldn’t do, they did. As Fred Smith, who worked for DFAT in Uruzgan province and elsewhere, writes in The Sparrows of Kabul, 'the problems that brew in failed states become our problems'
The Foreign Service ought to be defending America’s interests. But this is the Biden administration, and so a more woke agenda takes precedence over that.