It's a complicated issue, and I'm by no means an expert on air support or the terrain and tactics used by Taliban fighters.  But I am very well versed in COIN and supply chain support, as well as the C&C systems used to monitor vehicle movement and personnel location. 

The systems we use to manage our C&C and supply chain are almost exclusively manufactured by General Dynamics.  I don't know who they're currently allowed to sell to outside of the US, but when I was in it was essentially limited to UK and Australian forces.  Those are the guys I worked with the most, and I have the utmost respect for British and Aussie soldiers.

I provide that context because there wasn't an option to leave US Military equipment with our classified systems in them.  If those systems fall into Chinese or Russian hands, you've created the potential for them to find an exploit and completely compromise or negate our C&C systems. 

So the idea that the US would ever leave those systems to the Afghani's is preposterous and isn't something anyone in any administration would have considered.    Here's a big secret, the US's military is awesome because we have the best supply chain in the world.  An Army isn't worth the weapons it has if their soldiers aren't fed and protected from the elements.  The same issue Afghanistan had is the same issue the Iraqi Army had.  Corruption runs deep in these nations, and their entire perception about teamwork and national unity is fundamentally different than our own.  When I was in Iraq, we had to keep Americans at major fuel sites, because the Iraqis would steal and barter with their fellow soldiers for resources.  It didn't matter that this Iraqi convoy had orders to move from Irbil to Mosul, and needed to refuel at mid point.  The Iraqi officer in charge of the fuel site wanted something for himself in order to turn on the pumps to fuel the trucks of their own military.  The same issue is evident in Afghanistan.  They lack a central command structure and their entire government and military structure is corrupt.  So yes, the Americans leaving removed the only control in place to keep the Afghani's from fucking themselves over with their own corruption and greed.  But there's never going to be a time in the next 20 years where that wouldn't be the case. 

This general and people discussing it are talking out of both sides of their mouth.  Trump is bad because he gave a date for withdrawal, and that emboldened the Taliban he says.  Biden is bad because he left in the middle of night with no warning, and that sudden departure emboldened the Taliban he says.  The reality is the Afghan Army was never capable of functioning like a 1st world military. Think of the difference in soldier competency.  Every American enlisted man has a high school degree, and every Officer has at minimum, a bachelor's degree.  Contrasted with Afghanistan which has an overall literacy rate of 38%.  Helicopter pilot training in the US Army lasts a year, and you need around 300 flight hours after graduation to qualify as a primary pilot.  My last 2.5 years in, I was a Cyber Defense Officer and spent 10 months being trained on that.  I had many "allied" Middle Eastern officers in my class, and it was a running joke how incompetent these "allies" were.  They didn't care, often didn't even come to class, and they didn't need to pass anything because their presence was nonsense pushed from State about building up our allies so a flag officer or secretary could brief that the US Army was training allies in Cyber Defense.  Contrast that with the Russian Officer who attended the Basic Officer course with me, and that guy was a fucking rock star.  He was more educated and trained on military tactics than any of our West Pointers. 

So yea, the US stepping away revealed the Afghani Army for what it truly was; a broken, unorganized, undisciplined, corrupt boondoggle.  But the notion the US would ever leave its primary C&C systems there for Afghani use is a non-starter.  And yes, the US removing its logistical liasions with the Afghan Army forced the Afghani's to coordinate supply movements on their own.  But since 2011, the primary mission of US forces was to train the Afghani Army for this moment, and they collapsed in less than 2 weeks.  They still had more bodies, more weapons, and better training than all but the few remaining Taliban leaders who were trained by the CIA in the 80s. 

So I disagree with the notion that were setup to fail.  They were setup for success for the past 10 years, but you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink.  Any assertions that a lack of US logistical support is the primary reason for the Afghani's failure completely ignores that Afghanistan by its own societal issues was completely inept and unwilling to defend their nation.  We can all pat ourselves on the back for living in western democracies that preach egalitarian values, but the Afghanistan people didn't grow up in an environment where that was reinforced through 12 years of state sponsored education.  2/3 of the country can't even read.  Most Afghani soldiers were "volunteers" from the same villages that Taliban rules from.  They joined the Army for a guaranteed meal and chance at some kind of income.  They don't really care who leads from Kabul, because it's as abstract to them as who sits in the seat of power in Sri Lanka to all of us.  Same shit, different day.

The consequence of having a media that steps over itself to provide you with good press and positive spin.  This is the first time Joe Biden has faced a media asking him tough questions.

Starts with the nonsense the House went through today, then blames Trump for his botched withdrawal.

No questions taken.

Any word on if it'll have anything on it besides Absurd?

I'd love to hear Sympathy live.

Nah, dude is from Alabama.  I'm guessing Southern Baptist opposition to using profanity.