I'll be the first to say we should never have been in Afghanistan.

Our goals were nebulous and ill-defined, our methods alternated between bad and worse, with a soupcon of criminal stupidity, and we never had any moral justification for being there in the first place.

But the least we could've done is tried to manage a more orderly pull-out, evacuating those people we endangered before the place collapsed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57933979

https://apnews.com/article/business-kabul-3bf5dcb07bb97ab8851cadce9336574b

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/15/politics/taliban-kabul-afghanistan-explainer/index.html