A week after the Fall of Kabul, the flailing hegemon continues to embarrass itself:
America’s official deadline for total withdrawal from Afghanistan is August 31st, so half the remaining time has already elapsed, and in that first week of a final fortnight, according to the Department of Defense, it evacuated just 2,500 Americans – or about 350 per day. That seems an under-performance – or, as The New York Post’s front-page headline distills it, “DUMKIRK”.
