No military general, Department of Defense official, or presidential adviser has been fired following last year’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the first anniversary of which just passed.
The withdrawal concluded the country’s longest war. It was punctuated with the last service members leaving an Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban, just like when they arrived in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, and the largest emergency evacuation operation the military has ever conducted, though tens of thousands were left behind.
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