The American media is getting the Afghanistan story wrong.

As chaotic scenes like this continue to emerge Kabul, the press continues to cling to the narrative of a Biden administration “failure.”

Writing for The Atlantic, George Packer referred to it as a “betrayal.”

The GOP threw rocks too. Nothing new there. Why bother with context?

Lost in the noise is that Americans overwhelmingly support troop withdrawl.

And they want us gone too. As Laura Jedeed notes:

I remember Afghanistan as a dusty beige nightmare of a place full of proud, brave people who did not fucking want us there.

20 years, trillions of dollars, and thousands of deaths are more than enough reasons enough to cut bait.

No one should've expected this to go smoothly (or easily), but the choice was exit now — which Trump agreed to — or stay stuck in a forever war.