Almost 20 years ago, the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan to root out Al Qaeda and Taliban, as a response to horrific and brutal 9/11 terrorists’ attacks against the United States in 2001. Over the years we in the west were told that the country, Afghanistan, was making and had made significant progress in terms of education and women’s rights, we were told that Afghanistan now had a functioning democracy and although somewhat nascent, the U.S and its allies had helped build an Afghan Defence Force that could face off much of the threat posed by a potential Taliban insurgency.  Even recently, on the 8 July 2021 in a briefing when the current President of the United States, Joe Biden, was asked if a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was inevitable, Biden responded with “the Afghan troops have 300,000 well-equipped- as well equipped as any army in the world – and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable”. In the same briefing Biden also remarked “I trust the capacity of the Afghan military, who is better trained, better equipped, and more re- — more competent in terms of conducting war”.It has been a few days now that Taliban has taken over Afghanistan, including its capital Kabul- except the Afghan International Airport, which is supposedly under the control of U.S forces, however, “control” might not be the word one would use to describe the chaotic scenes that are emerging from Kabul’s airport, videos of which have been been widely shared on social media platforms, showing Afghan men in their traditional attire, in hundreds, running after a moving U.S Airforce Plane, attempting to board the plane en route to who knows where, subsequent video clips showed that at least two men who clung to the aircraft fell from an altitude that would make survival less likely.