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

Brings back memories of the 75 pullout from the Embassy in Saigon. I'm feeling for the Afghan people

Flew many an airlift downrange to Afghanistan carrying in troops and supplies. I was initially supportive of the mission to eradicate the Taliban and eliminate Osama Bin Laden. I often believed that once OBL was eliminated, the mission should have ended and withdraw our force. Any student of history realizes that while Pakistan supported the Taliban (permitting cross border access and safe havens, much like Cambodia/Laos with the NVA), the Taliban could sustain its operations indefinitely. A mission that put it all in perspective for me was an MEDIVAC mission I flew transporting a 28-year old 10th SFG sniper from Bagram with a fatal head wound back to Landsthul, Germany so his parents could be with him during his final moments. It was at that moment I knew the mission was more for the Contractors ($28.00 cases of water) and Flag-rank leadership punching their ticket for the next promotion. Regrettable waste of blood and treasure!

I will echo the sentiment that this was the inevitable result of a full withdrawal without having first secured the trust of the populace. We are not unique in our ability to create our own enemies, but we seem oddly blind to it much of the time.

It made me sick to my stomach when Vietnam continued after the late 60s.
Johnson,Westmorland, and Nixon knew it was over,yet every day more teenaged draftees were killed and maimed!
(There is a special place in Hell for people like that)
So we all know,for good or bad, this war is over for our soldiers. I didn’t want to see even one more American casualty.
There are young men alive today who who’s lives would have been wasted had this continued.
We, as American warriors should be proud of the good we did happy its done.

Me neither. Such a shame.

I feel used & betrayed. We lost over 2000 lives there & many many who returned unwell. I know we should have never been there but that’s not for me to say. I was not there but I feel the way scrambled & ran leaving people who trusted us was wrong. Disgraceful! The original plan was an orderly wind down as Afghanistan was ready to hold the government & preserve the rights of people who depended on us. This whole thing creeps me out.

#OperationEpicFail
#OperationEnduringFailure ....thousands 6ft under and 20 years in the making only to watch the Afghans fall-out from a C-17 and die rather than live under Taliban!
#OEF

Very disappointed, but saw it coming years ago. Just the way it was done was sloppy. The Afghan army and president are a disgrace. Never negotiate with the enemy.

I served during Vietnam and lost friends and family members in that sorry political mess. Then I lost buddies who signed on as contractors in Afghanistan. As we used to say, deja vu or in this case it was more like BOHICA.

Did we not learn anything from Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq ???