Dunno about the president but from what i heard, which admittedly isn't much cause i don't have that much free time to research this ****, is that the intelligence projections expected the conflict to drag on a couple months at least. Every source I've seen has remarked on how quickly everything fell compared to what they were anticipating. Maybe the president was wise enough to foresee how botched this whole thing would be. Either way you can't tell me it's impossible to pull out from a country without doing it all at once so the whole place goes to **** in a matter of weeks. I can't see how you could think that level of chaos is not something we would want to mitigate.
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