The Issue: The evacuation of Americans and Afghan civilians from Kabul after the withdrawal of US troops.

President Biden’s decision to end our military involvement in Afghanistan was the correct one; however, the patently obvious thing to have done was to commit at least 30,000 troops to an effective withdrawal strategy (“Dumkirk,” Aug. 21).

Do not fault our troops. As usual, they are “heroes led by donkeys.”

A firm warning to the Taliban that any interference with civilians (American, Afghan or other nationalities) wishing to exit Kabul would be met with a heavy US military response would have been sufficient to keep the Taliban in check during the evacuation.

The signals that the Taliban did receive from the White House told them of blundering, miscommunication, indecisiveness and gutless incompetence. The Taliban leaders took this as a green light to push ahead with their plans.

Some 8,000 troops were not going to deter them.

John W. Condon

San Francisco, Calif.

Unlike the ongoing debacle in Kabul today, Saigon did not fall until April 1975, two years after our troops had withdrawn from Vietnam.

The Americans who remained after our troop withdrawal were primarily embassy officials, Marine Guards and expatriates who had chosen to remain in Vietnam.

These were the individuals (including our Vietnamese allies) who were airlifted from the embassy roof in Saigon.

Any comparison of our honorable troop withdrawal from Vietnam to the hasty, ill-conceived withdrawal from Afghanistan today is politically deceptive.

It seems our current policy is one of cut-and-run, rather than leading the nation toward achieving a noble goal of peace with honor.

Richard Soehngen

Fredericksburg, Va.

It is unfathomable to believe that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff could not foresee the consequences of Biden’s ill-conceived “plan” to take our troops out of Afghanistan.

So he was either negligent in not relating his concerns to the president or decided to go with the flow to save his job. Either way, he should resign.

In my 76 years, I have never witnessed my country led by such weak and scatterbrained leaders.

John Kapica

Carmel

Biden still doesn’t admit that while the decision to pull out of Afghanistan is supported by the majority of Americans, the timing and the plan were botched.

Right now, he’s relying on the Taliban to behave — and, with thousands of potential hostages, he has few option if they don’t.

When the Nazis drove the British out of Norway and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was trying to spin what happened, a member of his party, Leopold Amery, quoted Oliver Cromwell, telling Chamberlain: “You have sat too long for any good you may have been doing. In the name of God, go.”

I wonder if there are any Democrats who will have the decency to tell that to Biden.

John Habersberger

New Paltz

Why is the world’s mightiest military force tip-toeing around against a bunch of rag-tag Taliban terrorists?

Biden needs to step up and use force to get Afghan allies out. He needs to let the Taliban know that he wants their checkpoints around Kabul airport removed and that any Afghan who wants to leave the country should be able to do so.

When dealing with an extremist group like the Taliban, force is the only thing that will work. Biden needs to stop running around with his tail between his legs and stand up and take action.

George Magakis

Norristown, Pa.

Why would anyone cooperate with the United States in the future, knowing they could be abandoned whenever the president deems it convenient?

We have rewarded the Taliban for their patience over the last 20 years by gifting them some of the most advanced military equipment in the world.

A.J. Linn, Manhattan

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