Bad goes to tragic for Biden on Afghanistan: The Note

It's hard to cast this moment as delivering on the U.S. commitment to Afghans or to Americans who have long shouldered this war's costs.

The TAKE with Rick Klein America's longest war is now in the midst of the longest and perhaps most tragic imaginable ending -- a catastrophic, chaotic and deadly end stage that continues even while U.S. forces are expecting more terrorist attacks. The evacuation figures being cited by President Joe Biden and his White House have been eclipsed by U.S. casualty numbers not seen in a decade. Military leaders warn it could get worse -- terrorists firing at aircraft, suicide bombers inspired by Thursday's carnage or American service members drawn into reluctant combat all over again. They are possibilities Biden confronted late Thursday, in promising "force and precision" to retaliate against those responsible for the deaths of 13 American troops: "We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay."