With Afghanistan reconquered by the Taliban, the White House has exchanged unconditional defeat in Afghanistan for the honorific that Joe Biden has ended America’s longest war.

But beyond the 65 airplanes, 22,174 Humvees, 64,363 machine guns, and other billions of dollars of military resources we left behind for our enemy to use, the State Department has conceded we left at least 250 Americans who wanted to leave Afghanistan. The claim is not that we could not help them flee to safety, but rather we chose not to after they failed to reach the Kabul airport in time for the administration’s arbitrary evacuation deadline.