The thing us, how do we know now, what is a real thing vs a whiney talking head spouting off an opinion? Too much nonsense, not enough facts.
No. I don't want to argue. AND I don't want to whine. I just feel that real facts are more important to the topic than distortion of them.
You were responding to one of Nivek's posts agreeing with mine, so:
The evacuation finished on the 30th of August, but the Taliban had taken control of Kabul on the 15th. For 15 days, the evacuation was being completed from Kabul airport while the area outside the perimeter fence of the airport was wholly Taliban controlled. We know that evacuations continued in the time between the Taliban taking control of Kabul, and the US government finishing its evacuation operation. It was while screening incoming evacuees that 13 US Marines were killed by a suicide bomb. This graph from an AP article shows that the US evacuated more than 100,000 people from Kabul airport after the 17th of August:
The US military forces in the country of Afghanistan were contained within the perimeter of Kabul airport, and at the same time evacuees, American civilians, and US government employees were making their way to the airport to be evacuated. The US government clearly allowed this to happen, either intentionally, or by accident. US diplomats were evacuated by helicopter to Kabul airport on the day that the Taliban rode into Kabul. So it is reasonable to ask how and why this was allowed to happen. Why did the military withdrawal precede the civilian withdrawal?
Kabul airport attack kills 60 Afghans, 13 US troops
Timeline of U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan - FactCheck.org
I made the point earlier in the thread that many private individuals still in the country shouldered some of the blame for their predicament in August. But some of these evacuees were civilian US government employees who were left stranded outside the military perimeter, like the diplomatic staff, for instance.
According to this article, Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan reveals that the Biden government was talked out of triggering an earlier evacuation by the Afghan government, as it could lead to a loss of confidence (even without an early evacuation, the Taliban took control of every province of the country in the ten days from the 6th to the 15th of August).
Biden national security adviser says US didn’t evacuate Afghanistan sooner
So although they delayed the evacuation of civilians, they did not delay the withdrawal of the military, leaving the civilians exposed when the Taliban took full control.