Yes the US withdrawal wasn't well done - but there was little choice once the Orange One had signed over teh country to the Taliban.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-09/ ... /102072472
Active-service members and veterans in the United States have given testimony about the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, describing in harrowing detail the carnage and death they witnessed on the ground while imploring Congress to help allies left behind.
Key points:
One US veteran say he sees "the faces of all of those we could not save"
Afghan veterans testified at the initial hearing of a long-promised investigation by House Republicans on Wednesday
Witnesses are calling on the US to help the hundreds of thousands of Afghan allies who worked alongside US soldiers
The proposal would have enabled qualified Afghans to apply for US citizenship, as was done for refugees in the past, including those from Cuba, Vietnam and Iraq.
But that effort stalled in the Senate late last year due to opposition from Republicans.
"If we don't set politics aside and pursue accountability and lessons learned to address this grievous moral injury on our military community and right the wrongs that have been inflicted on our most at-risk Afghan allies, this colossal foreign policy will follow us home and ultimately draw us right back into the graveyard of empires where it all started," Lieutenant Colonel Mann said.