Despite the knee-jerk gotcha crap by the usual suspects, this is a purely bipartisan result. It's pretty much the only thing that Trump and Biden were both 100% committed to. They're already deleting all the records on GOP internet sites about the incredible peace talks Trump had with the Taliban that promised full troop withdrawal. Even MSNBC is absolutely skewering Biden and his staff for this. The crystal clear hindsight is pretty laughable considering how long we spent there - it's frustrating to watch coverage that gives absolutely no negative hypotheticals any air. So we should have evacuated everyone who helped the US in a slow, pre-exit effort? Ok, so let's say that motivated the Taliban prior to Americans exiting and resulted in a few hundred troops dying. Or we leave a smaller force to shore up the major cities and provoke a high-casualty battle?
There are so many shitty results here that could have happened including the one that did. 20 years of training and arming their military ends in a complete and total surrender in a single day. Also ridiculous is slamming Biden for not listening to DOD experts while at the same time ridiculing the DOD experts for their predictions on the Taliban. Anyone trying to make this a winning political argument is simply arguing out of both sides of their mouths. Which is how someone like Liz Cheney ends up sounding like the voice of reason, incredibly.
There was no win to be had. After Trump's surrender there wasn't really a status quo to be held either. Hopefully Biden and company increase their efforts 100-fold to get folks out if they want to leave, and can find ways to exert enough pressure to prevent bloodshed.