As the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, U.S. veterans expressed concerns for the Afghans who worked with the U.S.
As the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, thousands of people packed into Kabul's airport in desperate attempts to flee and the U.S military raced to evacuate diplomats and civilians.
Laura Jedeed, who was deployed to Afghanistan twice, described the two decades the U.S. spent in the county as"20 wasted years.""It's complicated. Some of my friends aren't sure what they feel right now. Some of them feel angry and betrayed. Some of them feel grief for the people we were supposed to be helping," the 34-year-old said."I think all of us are sad. There's something so tragic about the waste of all this.
"I know how bad the Taliban is. I know what they do to women and little boys. I know what they're going to do to the interpreters and the people who cooperated with us, it's awful, it's bad, but we are leaving, and all I feel is grim relief," Jedeed wrote. "I hope the United States has a plan for them but I feel it's time for our troops to come home," he toldOn Twitter, he wrote:"My take on Afghanistan has nothing to do with the Dem Party. I'm concerned about the people that are left behind, but I'm sick and tired of American soldiers getting killed, families torn apart by PTSD, veteran suicides, all for a country not wanting to defend itself. Enough.
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