Why does this look like the map I have seen in history books of South Vietnam in the weeks leading to the fall of Saigon.
Well, Mazar-i-Sharif just fell about 20 minutes ago; the northern militias apparently would have fought on as they had for days but the AFghan Army ran out of the city. This was 12 hours after the Afghan president flew there and congratulated the Army in his only public speech recently for standing tough. Mazar was the 4th largest city, now it is basically just Kabul and Jalalabad and the Taliban are supposedly 7 miles out of Kabul.