ps Not sure what Maddow's context is.
Are people over there saying the evacuation was disastrous? Or are they saying UK newspapers are saying it? They may be. I haven't been reading them much. They take offence too easily, in my view.
For myself, I'd say NATO ought to have put a secure perimeter around Kabul. But given they didn't do that, and they were clearly stunned by the collapse of the Afghan army, I think they did pretty well afterwards.
They got a lot of people out.
The number of deaths was relatively small.
So the execution ended up okay, although it was slow to get underway.
It's the strategic decision to leave that to me is worse than staying. Islamist terrorism will probably return to the west because of it. From a terrorist perspective, I preferred the country we had a few years ago to the one we face now.
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