What is happening right now in Afghanistan is incredibly tragic, and it is heartbreaking to watch the videos of the Afghans clinging to the side of the C-17s and swarming the tarmac, desperate to escape the Taliban. I especially feel for those who worked alongside other Western governments and us. I feel that we could have done more to help those Afghans who risked their lives and the lives of their families to help Western forces. I think it will be next to impossible to assist all those who worked with us, and I am disappointed by this because we could have done better to protect those who put themselves on the line to help us. I also feel for the women, who have the most to lose, and for all the young people who are my age and younger who have not known what life under the Taliban is like.
I have to agree with President Biden in saying that I don’t think there was an easy solution to this withdrawal. I also agree with President Biden’s sentiment that he cannot ask more American troops to fight and die for a country that is unwilling to fight and die for its own freedoms. The speed at which the Taliban spread across the country backs up Biden’s claims. The U.S. had spent over a trillion dollars in Afghanistan, trained an army of 300,000, built an air force, paid their salaries, and gave them access to everything they could have possibly wanted to fight the Taliban…
