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

This socks. Brings back the debacle of 1975. Stirs up old Nam memories.

Sad, Confused and proud. I am actually surprised by how the ecvac was not planned out better. So much was done to help them and in the end we all know that we did what was needed no matter what the media says. I am so proud to be a disabled vet giving what I could to our blessed nation.

We knew this was coming from the moment we went into it. Calls to get out of this mess have been in the air since 2008, the real question to look at is what forces were aligned against us pulling out in all this time.

I was reporting aboard my first ship in the spring of 75 and watching sailors pushing Army choppers over the side of the Ranger. Hope the young vets know we understand what you are going through.

Makes me wonder what our sacrifices were for.

What a failure of leadership, a failure of the suits not the boots, just like Viet Nam, should have left Afghanistan after killing Ossama,the military leaders in this country couldn't pull a sick whore off a piss pot !!

My heart feels heavy. When I was in Vietnam, I saw the same situation. Sadness and anger.
My PTSD has brought back memories.

I feel that the officers, generals, and elected officials have a lot of explaining to do.

Specifically the 500 or so that publicly attacked the 45th president while endorsing the current president, who has clearly proven that he is not only taking orders from the Chinese Communist party but also repeatedly violating his oath to the constitution and our great country.

Cutting and running in the middle of the night is not a strategy.

People like Jim Mattis, Milly, Mark Kelly, etc have a lot of explaining to do. Trump wiped out ISIS in a year, we could do the same with the taliban.
THESE GENERALS ARE COMPROMISED MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX SCUMBAGS AND SHOULD HANG FOR TREASON AND SEDITION.

We needed to bring the troops home,however biden should have followed the exit plan that the Trump administration had laid out. Biden did the same thing to our southern border, now we have overv100,000 illegal immigrants coming across the border each month. If thats not a Super spreader of covid 19 then nothing is.

As someone who was there in the early days, 02-04, it’s very difficult to watch. Our small SF contingent was seemingly effective at keeping things manageable.