There is a high probability that this botched withdrawal was intentional. The Middle East is the perfect place for the military-industrial complex to thrive. No other country in the world is willing to wage war over the Middle East (so no World War can break out), and nobody truly cares about the lives of civilians in the Middle East. The Middle East is such a clusterfuck filled with such a large amount of low IQ people, that it is impossible to actually create stability in the region, whether it be through diplomacy or conquest. The establishment has shown that it does not care about the lives of able-bodied American men, and will gladly weaken the demography of its own country in order to achieve eternal growth and wealth. The first world is growing older, and the old think that American citizens are fully replaceable.