If You Didn’t See Chaos in Kabul, Where Were You Looking?
“For all this talk of chaos, I just didn’t see it, not from my perch,” John Kirby, the National Security Council’s coordinator for strategic communications, said on Thursday at the White House, following the publication of the Biden administration’s report on the Afghanistan withdrawal. That statement made me angry. My perch was a lot lower than his, and I certainly saw chaos.I had a modest part in the evacuation that was precipitated by the U.S.