In keeping with this administration’s theme of being one long series of projections, we now get the sort of disorderly and confused retreat that they portrayed the negotiated withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq of being for years. There is no positive facet to all this, we’ve abandoned the field of battle for no reasons other than political ones. The blood of the fallen will be on our hands for years to come, long after Trump has been carted off to prison for his crimes.