Bagram airbase fully evacuated and handed over to the Afghan army. Last major troop contingents of ISAF are out. Plunderers already inside the perimeter, it is reported. Tells something of the success of the training programs westenr armies ran on Afghan forces. Not that this enlightenment comes as something new.
No way to weasel around it: its another, the latest strategic defeat in a string of such defeats. Calling it differently, is glossing over it.
Western intelligence service take bets whether the Taliban take 6 months to capture Kabul - or even less. That the Afhghan government gets toppled, is almost taken for granted.
Bad for the civilian population, especially the females. But the outcome was predictable, and staying longer would not have changed anything. Not changing while lasting. Change only lasting under the guard of the bajonets, is no change, just a deadlock.
No longer trapped in the Afghan maze, but out of it - finally.
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