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France is not amused

Pod Save the World

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Afghanistan Inflection Point

Bie: The hysteria in some quarters about the withdrawal kind of actually exposed just how divorced from reality aspects of our form policy discussion are. This idea that we were goin to be able to pull off a seamless withdrawal without scenes of chaos and confusion after the overnight collapse of the afghan militaryan government was, frankly, just as irresponsible a as the endeavor we were engaged in for 20 years. In the end, a hundred andthirty thousand people, you know, in two weeks is pretty damn impressive.

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