The United States withdrawal from Afghanistan should have been delayed to take advantage of the harsh winter in the country, a former U.S. Special Forces flight surgeon told The Epoch Times. Lt. Col. Omar Hamada, M.D., also believes that the pullout should have been done incrementally, so things wouldn’t be as rushed as they are now. “What I understand is that the Afghan national police and army were requesting that we wait to withdraw until after this fighting season was over, so that—the winters are harsh in Afghanistan—but instead we sort of just pulled out, removed their air support, and left them to face the Taliban pretty much alone,” Hamada, now an emergency room doctor, said Friday. “So of course they collapsed pretty quickly. I think if we had done it more incrementally, if we had removed our people first, we’d have removed our equipment second, and then made the transition …