The blame game is underway.
Now that the Taliban have reclaimed Afghanistan, critics of the war and supporters, are blaming each other for the final stunning collapse of the Afghanistan government.
The thing is, we've know for years what would happen if we left the country. The Washington Post published the so-called Afghanistan papers a few years ago, revealing a trove of government documents.
Those documents revealed our military establishment knew our efforts to prop up the Afghanistan government and train its military were failing.
It was obvious that our efforts were doomed to fail because America was essentially trying to change the priorities forcibly of a people whose values were very different than our own.
The chaos created by Afghanistan's complete capitulation in record time has resulted in finger pointing and accusations from all sides of the political spectrum.
Our departure was never going to be pretty. Things like this seldom are. There's always winners, and losers. In this case there's more losers than usual.
The beginning of the end began in February 2020 when the Trump administration brokered an exit plan with the Taliban.
The blame game of which president should take the heat for the hasty retreat is ongoing.
Suddenly everyone is experts on why we failed to turn the country into a democracy. Cable TV and social media hosts are blasting the airways with disinformation and the Biden administration is busy defending it's actions.
It's hard to say how long the blame game will last. Vestiges of it will probably play a part in the 2021 midterms.
I suspect the coverage on Afghanistan will decrease in the news cycles ahead. We're in the middle of a COVID surge that should have never happened.
And the merry game goes on.
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