A congressional committee with a GOP majority is looking into the Afghanistan evacuation. They interviewed the general in charge of the region before and during the period. He blamed the State Department for not letting the army know an evacuation of troops and civilians would be needed. When the Donald Trump was President he signed an agreement with the military’s involvement setting the pullout date. That was over two years before. How did they not plan for the mobs of civilians waiting until the last possible minute? Haven’t they seen pictures of the people lined up to climb the stairs to get on the helicopter?

            Yes, the local State Department people should have got out earlier but they stayed too long to keep putting out visas and passes to the Afghans who helped us and waited for the documents, too. Everybody knew the last date months before but it’s human to figure there is plenty of time left and it’s just a matter of driving to another country or hopping an airliner. When that didn’t work out, the Air force cargo jets were the last option for thousands of Americans and Afghans.

            We have known all that since it happened. The media interviewed lots of people saying the same while waiting in the line. The eight soldiers who were blown up by the suicide bomber were doing their job. He wasn’t supposed to blow himself up in the line mob put on the plane but he saw they were doing to discover him so he took out soldiers and two hundred other people before he missed his chance.

 The real mess goes back to the beginning when the military wanted credit for getting the al-Qaeda Leaders by pulling the CIA’s people from the final hours of the chase. The Rangers let them get away.