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Ha, thank you.  I've been spending the last 20 minutes trying to find the date it changed.  This proves that no one can say they didn't know to get out months before the current situation.

No one told them that.  Sure, Biden may have said that to the press a month before the fall of the nation, but the State Department has daily updates on the situation.  If you sat there in Kabul for weeks watching the Taliban strategically capture the nation, and still thought "man, this is all gonna blow over soon, I'm fine", you have culpability for your choices.  I understand leaving at the drop of a hat is an inconvenience, but we're talking about life or death here.  And the Air Force isn't going to let Americans pack up all their property to be flown on a C-17. 

ID brought up the cost thing the other day, but if you can't afford $2k, what fucking business do you have being in Afghanistan if you're not a government employee.

Excellent point.  The State Department doesn't know how many Americans are even there, and alerts were sent to all Americans to get out in the week leading up to Kabul's fall.  Anyone living in Afghanistan during this withdrawal had to be aware of the risks.  If they chose not to have an exit plan and didn't immediately run to the embassy when the Taliban was outside the city gates, they have culpability in this.  They're not all victims, and I know many of them are business folks who wanted to profit off the situation.  America has a responsibility to rescue its citizens, but at what point do we risk American Soldiers' lives to rescue people who didn't heed any warning cause they thought they could ride it out.

Some pundit called this Biden's Katrina.  I disagree with that analogy for several reasons, most among them is the people left in Katrina made that decision and were told to get out by their mayor and governor.  You can't force people to make the right decision, and people are accountable for their choices.

He wouldn’t, cause that would be universally stupid. The Taliban knows Biden’s botched withdrawal has handed them thousands of US citizens as leverage. If Biden can get the people who want out, out, the Taliban will let them leave. They don’t want the US there, and the quicker we’re out, the better for them. What you’re talking about is an escalation of force, which would result in hundreds if not thousands of casualties, many of them American. This is a powder keg, and the US and allies are essentially fucked at the moment. If Biden gets everyone out by end of month, this whole fiasco will be forgotten and the media will return to talking about the nuclear explosion that happened at the Capitol in January.

Brody owned ROV right?  Definitely late 2006 for ROV, and 2007 for the current forum.  I used to talk to him in PMs quite a bit back in the day.  Hope he's doing alright.