“There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States in Afghanistan,” argued President Joe Biden in July 2021 as he prepared to end America’s 20-year war there. It was “highly unlikely,” he claimed, that the Taliban would be “overrunning everything and owning the whole country.” Biden was proven wrong just a month later. That August, the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the Afghan forces outmatched. Desperation engulfed the capital, Kabul. Afghans intent on escaping the impending regime clung to the side of a U.S. military plane l…