The truth about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan is that Trump loves dictators and set it up for them to win.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-truth-about-us-exit-from.html

The war in Afghanistan, a disastrous misadventure left over from the Bush Administration's incompetence, which cost the United States 2,459 lives, and 20,769 wounded service men and women, should have never happened. One of several demonstrations of the unbelievable incompetence of George W. Bush in foreign policy, part of his "nation building strategy" that failed miserably, the initial attack on Afghanistan was for the purpose of finding and getting rid of Osama Bin Laden.

The practice of Republican "kicking the can down the road" when it came to these disastrous, expensive, futile efforts at nation building was classic Bush. And so, the job of extracting the United States from a costly and deadly occupation in Iraq fell to President Obama, as did the task of holding back the Taliban in Afghanistan in order to pursue Bin Laden. Of course, President Obama being a far more competent leader, succeeded in bringing Bin Laden to justice, where Bush failed.

At that point, from my own perspective, I wish President Obama had followed the advice of his Vice President and removed the US presence from Afghanistan, as he did from Iraq. I understand his desire to make the effort to continue to prop up the flailing, corrupt Afghan government, and give democracy there a chance, but the Afghan army was not capable, and perhaps not very willing, either, to hold off the advance of the Taliban. Democracy in such an anarchic and radically Islamic country never stood a chance. It was never going to work, and President Obama should have pulled the plug.

Trump, naturally and eagerly threw himself at the Taliban dictatorship. These were his kind of people and he relished the thought of being able to undermine the democratically elected government and hand the country over to the Taliban. Of course, he needed to delay long enough to see if there was some way for him to extract money out of the situation before pulling the rug out from underneath the elected government and giving the country back to a cruel dictatorship and he wasn't capable of understanding the military realities and logistics involved in evacuating literally hundreds of thousands of people from the certain death and execution that would be visited on them if they were caught and left behind. His withdrawal plan was a disaster and a failure.