08-19-2021, 10:06 PM
(08-19-2021, 09:25 PM)Matt_Crimson Wrote: I'd say that depends on what one considers a botched exit.
What if we had attempted to evacuate all of the people we're trying to evacuate now from the beginning instead of getting our troops out of there first and then going "Oh shit, we need to go back and save those guys". I wouldn't consider that a botched exit assuming we actually had the necessary set up for such evacuations..... namely having boots on the ground.
What if while we had control, we had checkpoints instead of the Taliban?
What if we still had control of our weapons until we got everyone out instead of the Taliban?
Now we don't have control, we're rushing back to save people, and the Taliban is apparently escorting people we should have been escorting from the beginning.
In other words, a non botched exit seems like it would have been much more likely had we simply kept control until we got everyone out.
Good point, but what if we had done that some time in the past 20 years?
![[Image: 4CV0TeR.png]](https://i.imgur.com/4CV0TeR.png)