Closing this mission down and entrusting the Taliban to secure the outer perimeter of the airport seems like such a ridiculous plan by the politicians and planners it seems as if they essentially doomed this thing before it even got started. We've had a lot of soldiers over there who told us over and over that the ANA would fail, we should have at least had some kind of contingency plan if that happened quicker than we thought - or perhaps we should have never left behind an Army that we knew would at best maybe last a couple months or a year? Fast forward and we have one airport surrounded by Taliban to get everyone out...What were they thinking that lead us to this... If as Canadians we try to push the blame entirely on Biden / USA, how can we ignore that our politicians essentially did nothing to get our people out in time... How did we not see this coming?
It seems as if with the Taliban controlling the city, there was basically no avoiding this attack, the Taliban let all the ISIS guys out of jail as soon as they rolled in, what did we think was going to happen? I would think under normal times this would be an an act of war and breach of the first part of the peace agreement made with them "Guarantees and enforcement mechanisms that will prevent the use of the soil of Afghanistan by any group or individual against the security of the United States and its allies".
As concerning this entire thing is, my hat off to all those that are the ground right now trying to deal with this BS and get as many people out as possible despite all that has happened, godspeed and hopefully no more casualties.
