The Continuing Story of Afghanistan Bananastan

Current Status: Undetermined

It strikes me as a little odd that we haven't heard anything about how we managed to make such a mess of our withdrawal from Afghanistan. All I have heard is that the President really screwed up, but the President is just one guy in Washington D. C. Don't we have a giant military organization that is supposed to do the actual job of moving troops, supplies and support structures around? Don't we have a State Department that is supposed to oversee government employees who are stationed overseas? I mean how did this situation get so fucked up? 

Maybe I'm not connected to the right news sources. Seems unlikely, anyone who has anything to say at all, their word gets spread all over the net.

The Fire of Rome, 18 July 64 AD' by Hubert Robert

Borepatch gave me a clue. He points to The Intrepid Reporter, Bayou Renaissance Man and Charles Hugh Smith. Here's a line from the last:

It's not yet clear that there is any leadership left in America. What's playing on stage are warring camps of self-interested elites fighting to secure their power even as the foundations crumble beneath their feet. - CHS

Execution of Czar Nicolas II of Russia - Leemage/UIG/Getty Images

What I gathered from these guys is that there is a big fight going on between multiple factions: the entrenched political establishment, the military, the intelligence community (NSA, CIA, FBI et al.) and the new tech oligarchs. In light of this, the 25,000 troops deployed in Washington D. C. back in January starts to make sense. It wasn't because of the 'insurrection' by a bunch of tourists, that was just a pretext. It was because someone in the government was afraid of a real coup coming from one of the other factions.