All month I tried to … no … I asked myself to come up with something good at the 1-yr anniversary of the national humiliation that was our negotiated retreat/surrender of Kabul a year ago, but here I am the night of the 30th and the morning of the 31st … and I have pretty much nothing. “Good?” No.

I failed you and myself. I’m not all that happy about it either – but that kind of fits the moment. …

Even in our retreat from the airport, we lost 13 Marines, and yet – almost silence from our most senior people who a year later feel content to enjoy their high positions and intact reputations.

It is sociopathic.