This week, if you read one thing, it should be George Packer’s “The Betrayal.”
In excruciating detail, Packer lays out the political malpractice (if not worse), bureaucratic missteps and sheer desperation that led to the chaotic scenes in Kabul we all watched with horror last August. Yes, 124,000 people were airlifted out of Afghanistan. But thousands were left behind: U.S. …