Matthew Bracken (@Matt_Bracken)

My fear is that yesterday's suicide bomb attack was just a stray cannonball “recon by fire” lobbed into the Alamo by one of General Santa Anna’s gunners. The Kabul Alamo Airport is indefensible, with no overhead cover for our troops. It's surrounded by hills on three sides, and it's inside a city of over 4 million. At any time, the airport can be hit with mortars, with no way to stop them. The order to leave Bagram should have generals court martialed and jailed in disgrace. They should have resigned en-masse rather than agree to put troops into the Kabul Alamo with no local air base from which to cover them. Kabul Alamo Airport should have just been a collection and ferry point for moving evacuees to Bagram by helo and only then onto C-17s. I saw a photo of about six C-17s wing parked tip to wing tip at KIA. A single mortar could wipe out billions of dollars of our best platforms in 5 minutes. And this can happen at any moment of the enemy's choosing. And now our hands are tied, like a man on a gallows with his neck in a noose. We have no options, we are at the mercy of the Taliban, thanks to the fools, cowards and traitors we call our leaders.