This Memorial Day, remember the Afghanistan withdrawal

On Memorial Day, we remember and pay tribute to the fallen. Yet, the concept of honor appears to be largely anachronistic in modern society. Nowhere in recent memory has the disregard for honor been more noticeable than among the senior military leadership involved in the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan in 2021.

Despite claims that this event was an “extraordinary success,” many saw it for what it really was: a dismal failure. We now know that senior officers were aware during the planning of the operation of its manifestly ill-advised nature, and afterward, none acknowledged responsibility for this self-inflicted fiasco.