b"When Kabul fell to the Taliban several days ago, rocking President Joe Biden's pullout operation, the White House made a strategic choice: They doubled down, didn\\u2019t apologize and crossed their fingers that the nation would move on quickly.\\n\\nNow, 13 U.S. service members are dead following a pair of suicide bombs \\u2014 the first U.S. troops to be killed in Afghanistan in 18 months \\u2014 as are 95 Afghans. The attack, carried out by ISIS-K, is the deadliest assault on U.S. troops in the country in a decade."