It’s good to have your input, having been there. Will this incident make it even more difficult to deal with the Afghani population?
The Taliban is given “plausible deniability”. The cover of being under the Doctors Without Borders was to insure that international blame would be shifted to the US “occupiers”.
The Afghani population will agree with whoever is standing there with the weapons or the money. Our absence allows the Taliban to offer them and force them to do anything the Taliban wants. When we were controlling entrances on the Pakistan and Iranian borders, we had a much better handle on what happened within AF. Our minimal presence is allowing total access to the populace by the Taliban. Who knows what is going on outside of our direct view.