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

As I lost a friend in A'stan there is a very bitter "For What?" feeling. I haven't talk to his sister yet and I'm not sure I will bring it up but guessing she's wondering the same or something similar.

20 years - lives lost and trillions of dollars - only to end up giving T'man better equipment and training via ANA. I give it 5 years before this come back around - God forbid dirty bomb - via Iran and or P'Stan.

SSG Carlos Madden
I can't adequately express my feelings about this right now. The applicable descriptors haven't been introduced into our lexicon as yet‼️

I'm there with you

Just opens up a door you can't close. I never thought I'd see the day we would go through this again. Another defeat. Wars fought from the White House. So many lives lost. 20 years lost in 24 hours. Just makes me so so angry.

Joe Biden is weak. The minute the Taliban took the 1st city we should have reversed our exit. President Trump made it very clear to the Taliban that should they take any of the cities they did, we would reverse our exit and bring them extreme pain. Biden lacked the guts to take the moral stand necessary. Both Bush and Obama promised Afghanistan that America would not abandon them. The Taliban knew Biden was too weak to stand and fight. Shameful, embarrassing and dangerous display for China, Russia and N Korea to see. The outcome is pathetic. Biden will go down in history as the weakest and worst President of all time. I'm to old to re-enlist but I would tomorrow if America reversed its position.

Words aren’t enough to fully express how I feel…. It’s just sad that so many of my military brethren died in Afghanistan and for what? Billions of dollars spent in this country and all so that the enemy can take it all in a WEEK!

Had feelings this would happen when we went in there. Afghanistan has done this over the centuries. The Russians didn't fair any better than we did

Sadness. Sacrifices on both sides, blood spilled needlessly, empty promises, failed expectations. Other parts of the world do not hold our ideals. Why do we insist they should and why do we intervene? The equipment loss alone simply possess me off amd if was a service member it would come out of our pay. So...

After much thought and reflection through yesterday and tonight I AM STILL PISSED. Not that we pulled out but that we pulled out so fast without any sense of purpose other than get the hell out. I am pissed that many of my friends and colleagues died on that God forsaken piece of land and for what? I haven't lost or forgotten anything that I will ever have to go back for! But then I just came to the conclusion that I can carry a grudge and be a bitter pissed off old man or I can accept the fact that I went over there when I was called to, did my job by keeping the fight on their soil and not ours and my family was safe from harm and I came home only to go do it again.. Would I change anything now? NOPE...I answered my nations call and did my duty and would have done it anywhere and anytime I was called and for that I am proud. However, I will say this, Biden did it the wrong way...instead of a phased redeployment and leaving them hanging he ripped the bandaid off and it is causing more infection and now he has to go back in with increasing number of troops to secure some sites. Could have been done better but he inherited this from Trump/Obama/Bush and all of them had the opportunity to end it and they didn't. Just need to let it go and move on.

Maj Marty Hogan Lt Col Charlie Brown SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen MSgt Stephen Council 1SG Steven Imerman SMSgt Lawrence McCarter PO1 H Gene Lawrence COL Mikel J. Burroughs

I’m disgusted. This government spat in the face of everyone who left something in that desert