Nicholas Irving, former U.S. Army ranger, with three tours each in Iraq and Afghanistan, talking with Matt Gallagher for Esquire, said that he agrees with the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, “100 percent . . . . My stance is completely different than it was. What’s changed for me is nothing’s changed over there. We got bin Laden a long time ago. … It’s watching young guys go over there and do the same thing I was doing. The whole purpose of us going was so they wouldn’t have to.”
– Matt Gallagher, “Leaving Afghanistan Behind,” esquire.com, October 7, 2021