Critics of President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal decision generally fall into two camps — those who opposed the pullout of the remaining U.S. and international troops and those who supported the plan Biden inherited from former President Donald Trump but believe he badly bungled the execution of the departure.

The history of America’s 20-year war culminated in this month’s ignominious final chapter, replete with wishful thinking, naive assumptions, misguided blunders, and now finger-pointing and blame-shifting.