That said, I have received numerous requests from readers to discuss the situation and I've found certain aspects of the pull-out rather suspicious. The basic assumption here is that Biden is senile and his handling of the exit is tainted by his stupidity, but maybe there is more to this than meets the eye…

First, I think it's important to dispel a propaganda narrative being circulated by the media that conservatives are somehow calling for troops to stay in Afghanistan by criticizing Biden's exit strategy. This is typical leftist gaslighting. One can be in favor of a troop draw-down and still be critical of Biden's handling of it. Frankly, the US should have been out of Afghanistan several years ago; I don't think that it's too much to ask that there be a concrete plan in place to mitigate damage to those people who relied on our presence to protect them from the Taliban.

It was Barack Obama who first promised an exit from Afghanistan by 2014 while claiming that the "combat mission was over." This of course never happened and the political left ignored Obama's deception in favor of the progressive savior narrative.