You're handwaving away the origin of the botched withdrawal. 'The government did the best it could with the information it had' is not a reasonable defence. They're the ones who collected that information! Billions of dollars sunk into the US intelligence network, and it turns out I could've gotten a more accurate reading of the Afghan people from Mystic Bob's horoscope column!
Thank you, great explanations!
You're handwaving away the origin of the botched withdrawal. 'The government did the best it could with the information it had' is not a reasonable defence. They're the ones who collected that information! Billions of dollars sunk into the US intelligence network, and it turns out I could've gotten a more accurate reading of the Afghan people from Mystic Bob's horoscope column!
I think we should have much higher priorities than calculating exactly how fast the Jenga tower that was Afghanistan was going to crumble.