Graveyard of empires

Far faster than expected, but how different an outcome from what our policy makers had reconciled themselves to? The rest of us, too? I see this picture and think Saigon ("manifestly," Secretary Blinken), but also can't help assuming the view of those in and with access to helicopters. Even in panicked disarray, "we" are the ones who get away, who have somewhere to get away to. Not so the Afghans...