I probably don't see it as black and white as you, but that message is already out.
Is it?
This is the very tail end of a twenty-year war that has been - by any measure - a disaster, for the Afghans and for everyone else. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans dead, thousands of Western troops killed, tens of thousands of Western troops maimed, at least two and a bit trillion dollars pissed away, a wave of radicalization leading to terror attacks across the globe and the rise of a group worse than the Taliban... and all it has achieved is to get us right back to square one.
Now we are leaving and repeated tragedy has ensued during this withdrawal, the very last people who should be crowing about how appalling it is are the incompetents that are responsible for all that (or the people who cheer on those incompetents), whose proposed response to this is apparently to either not leave and hope the Taliban don't notice or instead to ramp the war up again for as long as it takes, because obviously the lesson from this latest horror is that we should present more targets over there for a longer period of time.
Of course though there are Tony and his mates, seemingly on all media platforms, condemning Biden for withdrawing (under a deal Trump signed and would have implemented earlier), and pretending its going to be open season on the US / the UK / western civilization as a whole because of how "Taliban Joe" (!) has taken troops out.
It won't, and if we go back to a saner foreign policy (where war is a last resort but when it is declared, it is done properly) led by more competent and less corrupt leaders we will all be far safer than we are now.
