“The Afghans now at greatest risk are the same ones who have been on the forefront of progress inside their nation...."
If that doesn't say it all, I don't know what does.
Now you know why those C-17s were so full of adult males rather than women, children and the elderly. Now you know who was running to those planes. Duh.
The fact that the Taliban didn't have to fire weapons to take over the country, negotiating their way through, and given the fact that Afghans didn't lift a finger to fight the Taliban after twenty years of military training and arming them to the teeth and that the Afghans clearly just chose the Taliban over Bush's installed regime rather than fighting them, paints a stark reality of what is going on.
Pft. Progress. Who does this cat think he's fooling anyway?
His words amount to, please take in my stalking horses of regime change, because the Afghans just chose the Taliban over my installed regime and there's no way they'll remain welcomed there.