It's a good article. I liked this interview where the commentator (Peter Bergen) talks about the symbolism of the USA pulling out. It didn't matter if they wer

It's a good article. I liked this interview where the commentator (Peter Bergen) talks about the symbolism of the USA pulling out. It didn't matter if they were doing nothing, just being there was enough even with limited troops https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/08/14/was-it-a-mistake-for-u-s-to-leave-afghanistan.cnn https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/08/14/was-it-a-mistak... Which this article plays too. The US left and the default became the Taliban, like a run on the bank. The Taliban needed a free flowing network to get the run going, WhatsApp might have been it. It's certainly an intelligence failure if WhatsApp wasn't considered in depth.