David Petraeous, the former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, interviewed by Matt Gallagher for Esquire, said about the U.S withdrawal from Afghanistan, “This is not going to end the endless war. It’s going to end our involvement in it … I fear that the endless war is actually going to get worse.” According to Gallagher, “He goes on to cite those fears, some of them prescient: An Afghan civil war. A refugee crisis. A safe haven for radical jihadism to flourish.”
– Matt Gallagher, “Leaving Afghanistan Behind,” esquire.com, October 7, 2021