I'm shocked. SHOCKED! Well not that shocked.

Glad you're not that shocked. If you have not been living under a rock, you should not have missed President Biden's pre-election interviews and speeches, where he pledged to maintain the troop levels in Afghanistan, UNTIL we can negotiate an exist strategy based on the principle of: we broke it, and we must fix it. As opposed to 'oops, it was like this when I found it, I'm sure it will fix itself, see you later suckers'.

He's keeping a campaign promise he made to us, and the entire world.