Five observations:
1. How this chaos unfolded quickly? Well....throughout 2020, as the Trump administration talked to the Taliban folks....the suggestion was that any attempt to create a wave of warfare as the Americans would exit, would result in a massive amount of bomb-dropping.
So as the Trump folks exited....there probably was a meeting where the Pentagon folks and the CIA folks met, and openly discussed how this exit would go. I would imagine that both agreed on the Trump 'carrot-and-stick' routine to be a fundamental part of the strategy. Then the State department folks (with Biden appointees) stepped in and said that was not the sophisticated way of handling this.
The carrot-and-stick business? Dumped. I would suspect back in June, the Taliban had their strategy laid out and aggressively began their campaign, with nothing to worry about from the Biden folks.
The Pentagon and CIA now? Probably at the furious level. But hey....sophistication rules the game.
2. How f**ked-up will the 'rescue' business go? It'll be bad enough that most news organizations won't cover it or mention much on the nightly news.
3. President Biden getting any positive spin out of this? Zero.
4. Resurrection of al-Qaeda? Somewhere in this chaos...there's this young guy with dreams of terror acts, and within two years....his name will be mentioned weekly as the CIA admits that history repeats itself.
5. A movie over this rescue business? No....no one in Hollywood will touch this topic.
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