That interview didn't help Biden any.  As usual, the intel community protects itself so I assume they were behind the immediate leaks to the press saying they briefed Biden on the risks and their projections of an imminent fall.   I know just 4 years ago Democrats felt the intel community was sacrosanct and Trump was guilty of treason for disagreeing with their declarations.  I can't find any of those pundits making the same argument.

Point:

Schumer called Trump’s criticism “extraordinarily inappropriate” and said it would “undermine public confidence” in the government’s efforts to protect national security.

and

Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, also weighed in.

“The President has a dangerous habit of undermining the intelligence community to fit his alternate reality,” Warner said in a tweet. “People risk their lives for the intelligence he just tosses aside on Twitter.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics … story.html

Hard to reconcile that with the current blame game.

These are the same spy agencies that didn't know ahead of time the USSR was about to collapse or 9/11.  If they indeed didn't think this outcome would happen, add another failure to their list.

But in that interview Biden had a hard time pushing away the reality that people in the military and intelligence community thought his withdrawal plan was crap.  Conflicting views are expected, but this crap where he's blaming Trump's timeline (May 1st) as an excuse for his failure to plan an orderly withdrawal of at minimum US Citizens before the military fell back to the airport is ludicrous.  That's not taking ownership.  We're more than 3 months passed Trump's deadline that no longer needed to be honored because the Taliban broke the conditions of the deal.  Biden had no problem breaking the deals with Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador to repatriate their citizens, so it's not like Biden had an issue undoing Trump's deals.  So is Biden going to miss his August 31st deadline, or will he leave Americans behind under Taliban rule?  He's making Carter look like a rockstar.

But that doesn't diminish the culpability our so called "allies" had in this.  EU intelligence is just as good as ours, and they had no problem getting the fuck out of Afghanistan either, nor did they or are they willing to deploy troops to secure the region.  So opinions from world leaders with armies they can't even fully supply don't hold much weight with me.

I get that a lot of the fire and edge that defined Guns was created when they were broke and largely homeless.  But do we really think that these professional musicians can't create new songs because they're in their 50s?  Hardwired wasn't the best Metallica album, but it was a shit ton better than Saint Anger and Death Magnetic, and they're the same age as GN'R.  I love some of the songs Slash has done with the Conspirators - World on Fire is fucking great.  Hell, I hoped to see Axl cover it live.  Do I think they could recreate Appetite today, no.  But that doesn't mean they couldn't make really kick ass rock n' roll.

Not mine. I heard it on CNN

I thought it was fair and to the point. I don’t get caught up on the when of an inevitably. Biden didn’t think the takeover would happen this fast. He acknowledged that, and is the focus of any criticism I have of him. The Afgani’s being a complete fucking joke isn’t something any General briefed or an argument multicultural relativist want put forward, but it’s the truth.

I don’t want thousands of refugees and their 100 person families being flown over either cause a person got paid $100 to translate a day a few times. You were paid for your service. Doesn’t entitle you to American citizenship. You gambled the Afghani government would stand, or you saw a quick buck. Thanks for your help, but these guys aren’t the Kurds who fought beside us in Iraq or Syria.

The Afgani’s wouldn’t defend their own country. Idiots clinging to a C-17 on the runway for unknown reasons aren’t heroic either. They either watched too many BLM roadblocks in America or aren’t aware that flying at 500 miles per hour at 30k feet isn’t a habitable zone for humans. It’s a horrible scene, but a fitting bookend to the images of Americans jumping from the WTC.

I generally define self determination in this context to mean plurality of a democratic vote.  But you can certainly argue their lack of any defense and quick collapse to Taliban rule is indicative they never wanted a western government.  Russia certainly agrees with your point for what it's worth.