This Is How the U.S.’s Afghanistan Exit Plan Unraveled – The New York Times

he plan was a good one, the group concluded.

Four months later, the plan is in shambles as Mr. Biden struggles to explain how a withdrawal most Americans supported went so badly wrong in its execution. On Friday, as scenes of continuing chaos and suffering at the airport were broadcast around the world, Mr. Biden went so far as to say that I cannot promise what the final outcome will be, or what it will be that it will be without risk of loss.

via www.nytimes.com

The media is acting like it’s unusual for a government plan to go disastrously wrong and be characterized by lots of unintended consequences. It’s not at all unusual. It’s practically SOP.