None of us seem to have any input in what's going to happen in Vietghanistan.... it's all just spinning from all sides.

Let's meet here two years from now. If it's a mess, one group of us gets to call the other assholes. Same the other way if it's all squared away.

If we have to parse the meaning of "mess" or the meaning of "squared away", let's pretend that "mess" means the Taliban are still fucking things up, and "squared away" means that the Taliban - or their descendants - aren't fucking things up.