The way to properly extricate America from Afghanistan was so forehead-smackingly simple that just about anyone could have done a better job than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. In fact, President Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had a plan – and it was working. There were no American soldier deaths in more than a year after Trump started playing hardball with the Taliban.
It’s too bad that no one slipped a copy of “Leaving Afghanistan for Dummies” lying around the White House for Joe and Kamala to peruse during all their free time. Sure, this is just a meme and not a real book, but the steps on the front cover are remarkably similar to the Trump/Pompeo plan.
Step one: Get the civilians out first. This was such a no-brainer that even a literal no-brain sort of person like Joe Biden could have thought of it. In fact, they could have messed up the entire rest of the Biden “withdrawal plan” and it wouldn’t have been such a catastrophe.
But by leaving American civilians behind and pulling the troops out first… ugh. There are going to be some medieval hostage videos coming up soon, aren’t there? And it’s all Joe and Kamala’s fault.
