What are your feelings as the Taliban reclaim Afghanistan after 20 years of US involvement?

I am really disappointed, betrayed and and angry. 20 years of Administrations had the opportunity to figure out a strategy that could adapt based on assessments of the capabilities of the government and evaluations of the police and army. After all this time, no one understands that Afghans respect strength. The Taliban wont respond to a few diplomats.

Honestly I am not affected as much as others might. I guess it's because I made peace with the fact that I knew this would happen many years ago. It sucks because of how many lives were lost for essentially a lost cause. I just pray that others find peace through this time.

It doesn't matter who was in office, it always was going to be a sh#tshow when we left. Mainly because we lack the will at the upper levels to actually defeat radical Islam. My concern and shock, though, is after all the blood sweat and tears that we have spent over there trying to build the ANA, ANP et al, how quickly they turned turtle. They didn't even really put up a fight. Makes you question why we were there for so long. My hope is this serves as a reminder (although I am sure it won't because we have had plenty of others) that when we engage our troops it needs to have a clear and concise mission with well defined goals. If you can't meet those requirements, then don't get involved or do a 30k foot campaign with a lot of bombs.

Afghanistan is now and has always been ungovernable. The Brits found that out in 1842, the Russians in 1989 and now we learned that bitter lesson as well. Nation building there was something that would never have succeeded. That said, it's not that we were never going to leave Afghanistan. That had to happen at some point. It was how we went about leaving. When a Pentagon spokesman was quoted as saying only three days ago, in essence, the ANA had the means to hold the Taliban at bay and now the Afghan government has fled, the ANA has disappeared and the Taliban are roving through the Green Zone says something about how epically wrong our intelligence was concerning the Afghan will to fight. I feel especially sorry for all those who worked with us over the last 20 years for it is they who are now most at risk. Heartfelt thanks to all those who served in Afghanistan and prayers for those still there helping in the evacuation.

The end result with the Taliban taking over was bound to happen, the exit strategy was a cluster. When I came home from Viet Nam, I was asked what did I think was going to happen and I said it would be a short time before the North took over the country, counter to what the state dept. and senior officials were saying. The situation here is the same, if they had asked the people actually on the ground they would have been told a different story. The end result is the US looks weak and the creditability has sunk to a new low. The real winners in this are China and Russia that never left their embassies and were left alone by the Taliban, having already brokered a deal before the withdrawal.

I feel betrayed. Our politicians broke an accord with their Soldiers - 20 years of my buddies getting killed, losing limbs to IED's, and the mental scars most of us Infantrymen have to bear by the things we saw, and had to do, and for what? Bin Laden and Saddam have been dead for years, why the fuck were we there afterwards? why the fuck did we pour billions of dollars into those shitholes of a third world country when we ALL KNEW the enemy was going to take it all back when we left. fuck hearts and minds - kill em all and let allah sort em out.

$2 Trilion thrown hat crooks like DeVoss and her Brother and given Mercenaries. They never had one bit of support from the Pashtuns. Thousands of prisoners were murdered in our name. It left a stain on everyone it touched. Other than hunting Bin Laden, we had no business there

As a two time Afghanistan Veteran, I feel like we tried to make a difference over the past 20 years. It was hearts over minds even when getting shot at. We spent a lot of money, resources and lives trying to make a difference bit unfortunately it didn't work. Not because we failed but because some people are stuck in their ways. I fell sorry for those who risked their lives to help us and for those who wished us no harm. We need to strengthen our military and our borders and invest more money into ourselves for the next generations to come. When I say strengthen our borders I mean from terrorist, and those that want to do us harm.. Not from people looking to work and make a better life for their family. Just want to make that clear. It's a shame we couldn't save the good people of Afghanistan but at the same time we can't save everybody. We need to save ourselves as well.

I am sickened! This is a huge blunder with many facets that are going to effect US international diplomacy for decades. Right now China is telling Taiwan you cannot depend on the US to sustain you, the same message is being given to Hong Kong. China is recognizing the Taliban. They see a client state. It is a mess.

I mean, Obama did it to Iraq. There was no doubt Biden was on course to do the same in Afghanistan. It has become eminently clear that Democrat politicians cannot be trusted with foreign policy. Frankly, my only surprise, so far, has been that we haven't lost a handful of American lives at this point, repeating Obama and Clinton's horrendous handling of the Benghazi situation. Over the course of the last decade we have officially lost any and all progress made in the middle east since 2001, and, in the blink of an eye, told all of our allies that we refuse to stick to our obligations. Biden has signed the death warrants of thousands by precipitously pulling out of the country, putting American lives at risk, as well. Most of the administration should be announcing resignations immediately, to include himself, the Sec of State, the SecDef, and the CJCS. What is occurring right now is a travesty, orchestrated entirely at the hands of a weak, cowardly, and intellectually vapid administration more concerned with moronic and deleterious domestic policies than protecting the nation and it's partners around the world from murderous terrorist groups. If the members of this administration don't resign, they should be impeached or whatever is necessary to remove them from their positions. They simply cannot be trusted at this point.