I wonder - "Gee, why don't the local villagers trust us and totally cooperate with us against the Taliban? It isn't like we have a habit of pulling out and leaving them to face the wrath and beheadings of the miscreants.
and why should the people in the cities trust us any more?
And to he*l with the moral of the troops who fought and bled and died in that hell hole - only to have the CICINO just hand it back to the people he's more concerned about, the Taliban.
Don't EVEN get me started.
“The Americans may have the watches but we have the time” -Taliban Axiom
Just you watch sometime in the next 5 years we will start to see rationalizations for talks with the Taliban to include them in some kind power sharing with the Kabul based government.