Clarissa Ward at Kabul's airport: It's hard being an American here witnessing this (CNN)

[ItsjustMe]

CNN's Clarissa Ward reports from Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport where thousands are trying to evacuate Afghanistan as the Taliban consolidate their control.

[Escurumbele]

1. All the blame is going to Biden, but where are the military who are supposed to advise him

They are the experts on all these, they have to know what it takes to evacuate the many people, those who are American, and those who contributed and deserve to be rewarded for risking their lives in the crazy adventure that George Bush, Dick Chaney, Rumsfeld and the rest started. They knew from the beginning that this was not a mission for success, they knew what they were doing and how they were going to profit from the tax dollars the USA citizens pay every day, and the military knew it as well.

Why is it that people are not asking WHO ADVISED BIDEN? Why is it that the media is not asking where and how the plans for leaving Afghanistan were put together and who was involved? Everyone knew this was not a win-win situation.

[reality1]

2. Its hard being in America

witnessing what I'm seeing in America

[reality1]

3. No one

not anyone thought the afghan army and govt. would evaporate that fast. Impossible contingency. Historically unprecedented as far as I can tell.

[Polly Hennessey]

4. My sense is that Clarissa will continue to be

an American and I am positive her book will be published next year.

We have seen a few refugee airlifts: the Hungarian airlift, the Vietnamese refugees flying out of Honolulu, now this one.

My mother was a volunteer for the Hungarian and Vietnamese airlifts. We lived in Europe and Hawaii for both. My father was an Air Force pilot who served in three wars. He also participated in the Berlin Airlift and often flew supplies to Warsaw.

[Budi]

5. Clarissa Ward dumbed down the #'s for impact. A LOT!

She'll sell a hard hitting book of the dramatization with extra sensationalism.

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[paleotn]

6. Had the withdrawal happened 10 years ago, 5 years ago, last year

next year, 5 years from now, 10 years from now, 100 years from now, no matter how much intricate planning was put into it....IT WOULD STILL BE A SHIT SHOW!!! Withdrawing from the graveyard of empires is like that.

[Woodwizard]

7. It is a mess.

Lets be fair if the Orange Menace was in office the tone on this board would be very very different.

Hindsight is always 2020 but why did we not get all the vulnerable civilians out before drawing down the troops we have been there for 20 years a few more weeks or months to insure safe transport should have been a given.

How many interpreters and other civilians in Afghanistan that helped the US military will never even get close to that airport now? They deserved better. The same happened in Iraq lots of military aides got left behind, the lesson to any country's populace is do not get involved, they do not have your back in the end.

It is a cluster F.