This isn't just a cartoon. It is highly probable the military evacuation was done wrong for exactly this reason. An "early, orderly evacuation from Afghanistan" would have shown we had no confidence in the Kabul government.
"Look" wasn't the issue, the Kabul government was unstable, it vanished like smoke. Our diplomats and military leaders should have known it would and acted accordingly.
Our decision makers feared admitting their nation-building failure and hoped for a brief window of stability to "get outta Dodge." Hope is no strategy - the war college teaches that exact truism and it has been validated once again.
