So, now I ask Biden's critics, what did Biden do wrong? What would you have had Biden do differently?
Those questions appeared on multiple threads over the past few days, and many are directed at Biden's critics. No one has answered.
However, what is interesting is that Biden's critics are unable to explain what mistakes Biden made.
They simply say he screwed up. They don't say how. Some have choice words for Biden, but insulting characterizations are not an explanation of mistakes made.
Typical is the the criticism leveled at Biden by Sen.
Robert Menendez, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “In implementing this flawed plan, I am disappointed that the Biden administration clearly did not accurately assess the implications of a rapid U.S. withdrawal."
In other words, Biden was unable to predict the future and what the enemy accomplished in a short amount of time.
Consider this, there is little doubt that there were intelligence reports concerning the lack of fight within the Afghan army. However, there has been no information on the evaluation of the Director of National Intelligence. There is no indication the DNI told President Biden with "High Confidence" that the Afghan army would fold at the first sign of trouble.
Then there is this. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley insisted at a Wednesday press conference that U.S. intelligence did not predict the collapse of the Afghan government in less than two weeks.
“There was nothing that I or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army in this government in 11 days,” he said, adding they were told the country could fall to the Taliban in weeks or even years.
A commander, in this case, the President of the United States, can only make decisions on the basis of the information available to him. He cannot predict the future. He cannot know the successes of the enemy at some point in time, and he doesn't base his decisions on the reading of tea leaves.
The situation in Afghanistan today is a consequence of the successes of the enemy, not American failure.
The enemy does not always do what you want him to do.
In this case the enemy did not wait "weeks or even years" to accomplish what he set out to do.