With the withdrawal of U.S. troops, Afghanistan is turning into a disaster.

To be fair, it was a disaster before U.S. troops got there.  American nation-building for profit intentions and arrogance just made it worse.

There are many stories coming out about the Taliban retaking the country and its bad effects.

One of the latest, from AP -

Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul

Afghanistan’s embattled president left the country Sunday, joining his fellow

 

citizens and foreigners in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban and

 

signaling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking

 

Afghanistan.

The Taliban, which for hours had been in the outskirts of Kabul,

 

announced soon after they would move further into a city gripped by

 

panic throughout the day as helicopters raced overhead to evacuate

 

personnel from the U.S. Embassy. Smoke rose near the compound

 

as staff destroyed important documents. Several other Western

 

missions also prepared to pull their people out.

Many people, Republicans mostly, are gleefully pointing accusatory fingers at Joe Biden and his end of the forever war.

Pic from Amazon

Pic from Twitter

Joe Biden and I will disagree on many things (he's way too moderate for me), but on this one, we agree.

The only reason for America to have any presence in Afghanistan is if we lived a "you break, you fix it" philosophy.

And that only works if we displayed any willingness or ability to fix things.

Too many folks are profiting from the status quo for there to be any willingness to fix things, and, truth be told, we don't have the ability to fix things there.

There are also folks who will point to a grave of a loved one that they have lost there, and they will get two things from me:

1. My heartfelt condolences.

2. A question - what's the magic number?  As in, how many bodies, both American and Afghan, have to be piled on that grave before the loved one there comes back to life?

Do I think that any Afghani who helped the U.S. there should be evacuated from there a given a place here if they so desire?  

Yes.

Otherwise, it's long past time for U.S. forces, and the U.S. in general, to leave there.