“Though officials warned repeatedly over the past few weeks that the Afghan government could fall far sooner than previous estimates … they overestimated the capability and will of the Afghan security forces to fight back”https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/16/kabul-afghanistan-collapse-intel-failures-505101 …
The next time the ruling class want to start a war we need to insist they spend those trillions rebuilding democracy and infrastructure here in the US and California!