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The utter collapse of the Afghanistan army, not only across the country, but in what the former stronghold of the Northern Alliance Mazar-e-Sharif, tells us everything about the situation.

The entire attempt to create a modern military controlled by the central authority in Kabul was a failure, and we were just buying time all these years.

The Biden administration's failure was not to plan for this moment—hoping it was months away, rather than right now. But, this whole enterprise was a failure, and it was screwed up by the Bush-era. Obama spent too much time listening to the counter-insurgency folks, but the "surge" didn't work. And Trump's era was just the cherry on top of this mud pie.

People are right to be mad at Biden, but not because the Taliban took over Afghanistan, but rather that we didn't spend the last six months getting everyone who needed it a ticket the hell out of there.

<blockquote data-quote="hulugu" data-source="post: 57891" data-attributes="member: 38">The utter collapse of the Afghanistan army, not only across the country, but in what the former stronghold of the Northern Alliance Mazar-e-Sharif, tells us everything about the situation. The entire attempt to create a modern military controlled by the central authority in Kabul was a failure, and we were just buying time all these years. The Biden administration's failure was not to plan for this moment—hoping it was months away, rather than right now. But, this whole enterprise was a failure, and it was screwed up by the Bush-era. Obama spent too much time listening to the counter-insurgency folks, but the &quot;surge&quot; didn't work. And Trump's era was just the cherry on top of this mud pie. People are right to be mad at Biden, but not because the Taliban took over Afghanistan, but rather that we didn't spend the last six months getting everyone who needed it a ticket the hell out of there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hulugu, post: 57891, member: 38"] The utter collapse of the Afghanistan army, not only across the country, but in what the former stronghold of the Northern Alliance Mazar-e-Sharif, tells us everything about the situation. The entire attempt to create a modern military controlled by the central authority in Kabul was a failure, and we were just buying time all these years. The Biden administration's failure was not to plan for this moment—hoping it was months away, rather than right now. But, this whole enterprise was a failure, and it was screwed up by the Bush-era. Obama spent too much time listening to the counter-insurgency folks, but the "surge" didn't work. And Trump's era was just the cherry on top of this mud pie. People are right to be mad at Biden, but not because the Taliban took over Afghanistan, but rather that we didn't spend the last six months getting everyone who needed it a ticket the hell out of there. [/QUOTE]

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