[rascul]

> Meanwhile, the current government probably will fall even before the US will finish its humiliating retreat

The humiliating part is that the U.S. was there at all, not that the U.S. finally pulled out of a place where troops should never have been sent.

[Beldin]

Having to send new troops just to evacuate embassy personnel before your old troops have finished leaving isn't the proudest moment ever, I'd think.

That is: the humiliation isn't in retreating, but in things collapsing even before you've left.