Honestly, I think they did the best they could with the terrible hand dealt. That doesn't make it any less of a mess, but who honestly thought on 1 Aug that Kabul would fall only 2 weeks later? It was a shitshow, but it also always had been, no matter how much we preened otherwise
Honestly, I think they did the best they could with the terrible hand dealt. That doesn't make it any less of a mess, but who honestly thought on 1 Aug that Kabul would fall only 2 weeks later? It was a shitshow, but it also always had been, no matter how much we preened otherwise
Honestly, I think they did the best they could with the terrible hand dealt. That doesn't make it any less of a mess, but who honestly thought on 1 Aug that Kabul would fall only 2 weeks later? It was a shitshow, but it also always had been, no matter how much we preened otherwise
The withdrawal from Vietnam was even worse than Afghanistan - didn't seem to hurt Nixon. Then again, Watergate was about to explode in his face.