from Afghanistan in a chaotic airlift nearly 20 years after it invaded the country in response to the Sep 11, 2001, attacks on America.
Having failed to anticipate the Taliban would prevail so quickly, Washington and its NATO allies were forced into a hasty exit, leaving behind thousands of Afghans who helped them and may have qualified for evacuation and others who feel at risk. "But I think if we'd stayed another 10 days, we wouldn't have gotten everybody out," McKenzie said, adding that the chief US diplomat in Afghanistan, Ross Wilson, was on the last C-17 flight out.
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