Very sad, but, not at all surprising. Why did we ever even pretend to take up nation building there? We should of destroyed the Taliban leadership ruthlessly 11 years ago and gotten out--Afghanistan is, and always has been...a basket case.
If we can’t take the ISI, poppies and Islam out of Afghanistan, it’ll never be over.
After 9/11, Bush decided to send our troops into Afghanistan as Ben Laden was based there. Rumsfeld was hot on small, skilled forces and deployed our special forces, but should have also sent enough regular forces as special forces were not enough from keeping Ben Laden and a lot of Taliban from slipping out the back door at Tora Bora.
Our next mistake was putting all our hopes on Hamid Karzai as Afghan president forming a stable government. He was and is a corrupt, double dealing rat, most Afghans hate him and us for backing him. We only had enough troops there to win in Bush’s last year in office. Obama has been pulling out our troops bit by bit since then. Obama telegraphed our surrender a week ago when Pannetta said we would be all gone by 2013, a year early. We need to learn a hard lessen. No foreign adventures unless our national survival is linked to the deployment and once there, unleash hell.
“Very sad, but, not at all surprising.”
You’re right, it shouldn’t be surprising; we were told the truth about Afghanistan every single day George W. Bush was president. Somehow the truth, and Cindy Sheehan (remember her?), disappeared when we elected an affirmnative-action token to re-direct our attention from the collapse of our standard of living and our culture.