There's no way to "better handle" leaving your corrupt puppet state to fend for itself after decades of fighting the will of the people who wanted a native Islamic government with their cultural values to rule. Americans universally fail to understand how unpopular we are abroad, how awful our low regulation capitalist values are, and how our military is seen as the murder machine that keeps our world-wide bullying going. There was never political will or loyalty in the puppet government or puppet military we built in Afghanistan. The only question was who was going to hold the bag when we finally had to leave.

The only good way to do this was to never invade and conquer but instead to chase ObL and capture him and fight the Taliban only as needed. How Bush got out of any responsibility for his reckless adventurism, not only here but the unforgivable tragedy of endless war crimes and crimes against humanity his Iraq invasion was, is the real tragedy here not Biden's "execution" somehow being sub-par. Per usual Democrats have to clean up after Republicans.