>>”...Americans threw the South Vietnamese to the wolves by withdrawing troops and funding...”
So, are you saying that we should do the same to the Afghans?
“So, are you saying that we should do the same to the Afghans?”
Good God! Read the entire comment. My point was that we cannot gain the active support of the Afghan people (e.g., they won’t provide us with information such as where they last saw the enemy, which villagers are working with AQ, etc.) if it appears to them that we are not determined to finish the job. Because they know that if we “do the same to the Afghans” as we did to the South Vietnamese, the anti-Taliban Aghans, and their children and their parents, and their cousins, are as good as dead.