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Ezra Klein: Let’s not pretend that the way we left Afghanistan was the problem

There was no hope of an end to the war that didn’t reveal our decades of folly.

(Bryan Denton | The New York Times) A tattered flag of Afghanistan flies at a police outpost north of Farah, Afghanistan, April 13, 2017. "There was no hope of an end to the war that didn't reveal our decades of folly, no matter how deeply America's belief in its own enduring innocence demanded one," writes The New York Times opinion columnist Ezra Klein.

(Bryan Denton | The New York Times) A tattered flag of Afghanistan flies at a police outpost north of Farah, Afghanistan, April 13, 2017. "There was no hope of an end to the war that didn't reveal our decades of folly, no matter how deeply America's belief in its own enduring innocence demanded one," writes The New York Times opinion columnist Ezra Klein.

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By Ezra Klein | The New York Times