Episode Notes:

The chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 was widely judged a failure by experts, service members, politicians, and civilians alike. But while the decisions were made in Washington, the consequences fell on the Marines at Hamid Karzai International Airport and the thousands of Afghans desperately trying to flee as the Taliban seized control. Five years later, who has taken ownership of that failure? Nicole and Omer Rafiq explore this and more in an emotional, honest episode of The Insider, based on Omer's latest piece for War on the Rocks.

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