One retired senior military commander said we should have built the Afghan security forces to look more like the Taliban.
The administration's assertion that the choice was between fighting the Afghan civil war or ending U.S. involvement is also nonsense and a false choice.
The Afghan failure is the result of a fundamental design flaw in U.S. Afghan policy that shaped the government in Kabul.
The Afghan government, America's own creation, was excluded from the negotiations because the Taliban demanded it.
The U.S. pressed the Afghan government to release thousands of Taliban prisoners as a good-faith gesture.
American leaders have been oblivious to their culpability for the deteriorating situation and for undermining the will of the Afghan security forces.
American diplomacy reinforced the Taliban's claim that Afghan government was a "Puppet regime." This dishonors the sacrifice of Americans and Afghans who fought for decades for a better Afghanistan.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to discern fact from fiction, and unfortunately the media has a strong bias. They spin stories to make conservatives look bad and will go to great lengths to avoid reporting on the good that comes from conservative policies. There are a few shining lights in the media landscape-brave conservative outlets that report the truth and offer a different perspective. We must support conservative outlets like this one and ensure that our voices are heard.
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