Antony Blinken actually said...

The Taliban made abundantly clear in many public statements, private statements to us, to others around the world that it was going to hold ...

The reality is that the government and Afghan national security forces collapsed.

We want to make sure that that does not happen, because if people lose faith and confidence in it...

It certainly runs counter to those goals, whenever there are civilian casualties, whenever there are unintended injuries or deaths.