I don't think there was ever a chance that a democratic government and prosperous 21st century society would ever sustain itself in Afghanistan once we were no longer there. It's contrary to the very nature of that region for centuries upon centuries.
But that damn sure didn't mean the present catastrophy was inevitable. As usual, Biden's myopic obsession with undoing everything from the Trump administration is the reason this is happening. Not just by his idiotic decision to withdraw the military and abandon Bagram AFB in the middle of the night before evacuating American civilians, but also his decision to terminate the Trump-created Contingency and Crisis Response (CCR) Bureau, which was created specifically for situations like this, to rescue and evacuate Americans trapped in hostile foreign crisis zones.
The "Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau," designed to swiftly and safely evacuate Americans from crisis zones paused by Biden's State Dept. months before Afghanistan exit; was designed to prevent another Benghazi situation
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