The withdrawal was chaotic because the Taliban essentially employed a blitz attack to seize power. My main question is, where was Afghanistan's army in all of this? The size of the force that is equipped to fight is something like over 150,000. We can blame America for the withdrawal and execution, but if their own soldiers won't fight to defend their county, I'm sorry, but I don't agree with American lives being put on the line.

Looking at the situation in the most recent lens, Biden was put in a difficult position. Trump negotiated a deal with the Taliban (that excluded input from Afghanistan's government) which dwindled the U.S. troop supply from 13,000 to 2,500 and required a withdrawal date of May 1st as well as freeing 5,000 captive Taliban soldiers. In fact, during the withdrawal operation, Biden deployed 5,000 additional troops to support evacuation.

If Biden ignored this deal, it would be a precursor to increased aggression with the Taliban. The only priority that Biden had was to withdraw American troops, citizens, operatives, and diplomats as a primary objective and to secure the protection of Afghanis that cooperated with the U.S. government. Considering the U.S. is taking in something like 30,000 refugees and have been working to facilitate the continued transfer of Afghanis, I'd say that there isn't the level of abandonment that is being claimed.