The US falls to liars and crooks. Not surprising since both sides now are run by are liars and crooks. Oh, well, why blame the Taliban?. Surrender here, occured long before we pull out of Afghanistan.
We’ve been in that country ten years. What have we changed there?
Have the locals taken up baseball? Have the women gotten rid of those beekeeper outfits?
If we really wanted to change Afghanistan, we should have taken a generation of youth out of the country and educated them in the west. Let the women learn to drive cars and use computers.
Then, the upcoming generation would never want to go back to the old ways. (And Afghanistan is a country
where the vast majority of the people are under 30.)
We should also have arrested every other mullah in sight
and restricted Koranic preaching.
We could have made a difference. Instead, we ran a few patrols, took and area only to give it up, and fundamentally changed nothing.
I await only now the rapid changing of sides by all of those who sided with us there, in order to curry favor with the Taliban.
A sudden evacuation from Kabul is not out of the question (a la Saigon); together with entire army
units suddenly changing sides.