What a tragedy. And what makes it even more tragic is that this is Vietnam Part II. As soon as we pull out, the bad guys will take over the country, just like they did in ‘Nam. A corrupt government, with an incompetent military, will not win against political (or in the case of Afghanistan) religious, fanatics.
The following AP report confirms what you stated as follows:
The U.S. army had intended to hand over its Combat Outpost Tangi to Afghan National Security Forces in April,....... but the Afghans never established a permanent base there......... "We deemed it not to be stategic and closed it," said coalition spokesman U.S. Army Maj. Jason Waggoner........ "The Taliban went in and occupied it because it was vacant."
The Afghan people, nor their army, nor their government are interested in protecting their own nations people.....and the proof's common place when you speak with the troops. They want us to protect them and continue to take in the mega millions Karsi and his thugs enrich themselves on. It's way past time to bring our guys home and stop this nonsense!
Most of those religious fanatics are not even from Afghanistan but rather from Pakistan and other neighboring (and not so neigboring) countries. They are "insurgents", and what we need to do is destroy anybody who is providing them their weapons.
After this, I am beginning to wonder why we bother at all; the natives don’t trust us, the Taliban/terrorists are better equipped to fight and we aren’t, so frankly lets just possibly remove the troops and ensure the security of our own country. We killed Bin Laden, we can kill Zawahiri, and our stupid politicians sent in our troops with no specific training on how to deal with this sort of thing, despite our past in Vietnam.