This pullout is so incredibly hasty and poorly thought out. For weeks now, this has been a fast-moving disaster and the media coverage had been so limited until

This pullout is so incredibly hasty and poorly thought out. For weeks now, this has been a fast-moving disaster and the media coverage had been so limited until provincial capitals started falling. For those not aware, the first atrocity was that the US failed to think about all the Afghani allies who risked life to work with Americans, such as translators. While the US later scrambled to evacuate some of them (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/us/politics/afghanistan-interpreters-visas.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/us/politics/afghanistan-i...), others were left to fend for themselves and faced brutal consequences like beheadings (https://nypost.com/2021/07/24/translator-who-worked-for-us-army-beheaded-by-taliban-report/ https://nypost.com/2021/07/24/translator-who-worked-for-us-a...). For the last two weeks, the Taliban's militias have been systematically taking over one provincial capital after the next, as the Afghani government sees desertions from their uncommitted and relatively untrained military forces. The US really needs to reverse the pull out and think about what it means to cooperate with a people and nation build. Yes, there have been numerous past missteps and money wasted with little accountability - but nation building, particularly after a war, was always going to be expensive and time-consuming. Leaving the project halfway after all these sunk costs feels like a hasty PR move that is now going to turn into an absolutely disastrous legacy for Biden and for America. I'm glad to see the decision to send 3000 troops into Afghanistan (https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-middle-east-evacuations-783b4aeabe20c709feed18129c49ac1e https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-middle-east-evacuations...), but am concerned that the US's commitment ends at evacuating embassies rather than supporting a nation that clearly needs help if we want a future ally in the region, instead of a future adversary. Let's not return to square one.