Originally Posted by
tdracer
Meanwhile, the US leaders still don't have a plan on how US personnel are supposed to get to the airport - literally telling them 'they are on their own'. Pathetic.
It's not the leaving - it's how it's being done that has most Americans outraged (not to mention much of the rest of the world).
Perhaps you should consider how such a plan may be written and carried through. No plan survives contact with the enemy. In this case Red forces are suddenly everywhere in a way that was never anticipated and they are inside the decision loop. Civilians are clogging the roads, the airfield is either overrun by civilians or controlled by Red. So how would you pre-plan that?
All Blue can do is sit down, draw breath, let the dust settle a bit, collate what they know and what they don't know, what they have and what they need, decide what must be done and what is possible then come up with a plan that can be refined to regain control of the situation. Just rushing at it tends not to help and eats up resources. What would you have them do?