The problem with these guys is they evidently were convinced to negotiate with terrorists in order to keep campaign promises.
You kill terrorists, you don’t negotiate. That plus the fact that every supposedly non terrorist leader of the Afghan government has been a corrupt slimey thief.
At the and of the day, both Trump and Biden promised to “end the war”. When the other side is still at war with you, the war doesn’t end.
I have no doubt Trump would not have allowed the stupid decisions Biden forced on his pathetic and cowardly Pentagon and State Department for a moronic strategy for final withdrawal. But that horse has left the barn and Leon Panetta is right about one thing: sooner or later we will be back fighting the Terrorists in their Afghan refuge, but when that happens we will be on our own and the “nation building” fantasy will no longer be on the table.