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

As a Vietnam Vet I remember when Thieu started pulling troops back from the central highlands and just knew that he could never regroup. Then Sen. Kennedy and a few other political idiots reneged on Congress' promise to resupply arms to South Vietnam, despite North Vietnam's violation of the Paris Accords by invading the South. It then became pretty clear that we just could not be trusted as an ally as our political winds keep shifting. And here we are again. I have yet to read of any heroic resistance by Afghan troops that as vets we could rally around. When you lose your country in less than a month after 20 years of training, there' not much left to respect. Yes, we should never have gone into Afghanistan. That's pretty clear. But 20 years?

It was inevitable that it would fall when we abandoned it to the corrupt and useless Afghan Army. I read their commanders had arranged in advance to surrender in exchange for bribes. Surely our intelligence people could have known this if they had got off their lazy asses and did their jobs. Why didn't we at least get our friends out of there before we abandoned it? It's just like Vietnam. While our political and to military leaders are playing silly diplomatic and bureaucratic games, the other side was dead serious about winning a war.

Every RVN vet understands what happened.

I am seeing some Taliban with American Rifles. I wonder if we trained them

We used to do airborne mission out of the c-17, now we see people falling off the c-17

What a waste….. just like Vietnam!

This sickens my heart. So much American warriors lost in battle, blood spilled on foreign soil, many wounded, broken hearted families and the pain of memory in wars which many of us still suffer. I am in a word or two, totally disgusted with the president and his administration. He falsely claimed about being in war himself and it puts a sour taste in my mouth. I wish we could get rid of him and his admin. and get a real President who knows what he is doing. May God bless the memory of our fallen and those who still suffer.

All for nothing, God Bless to All

as i sat in my living room watching helicopters evacuating troops and people and waiting for a phone call from the red cross or other religious groups letting me know that my dad was out of the country .This was april 1975,fast foreword to now and i am watching the same thing happen again except my dad is resting in peace. i felt let down then and the same feeling came back now .i keep our military in my prayers all the time and to keep them safe

Our exit was going to leave a vacuum of power regardless of when we left. But I think we did it all wrong. They way we left people over there, our allies, civilians, servicemembers.... I can't agree with that. I wish it was executed differently, and better.