[dsfyu404ed]

>modern weaponry and war waging abilities, are you joking?

The Taliban aren't joking.

You are grossly under-estimating what it takes to fight an insurgency. A military fighting in the same country on which it depends is vulnerable to attacks and sabotage on all its support infrastructure. You can't just carpet bomb areas of resistance because that creates more resistance elsewhere or destroy the country you're trying to control. It's a hard problem and on some level you have to get people on "your side" to win in any sort of long term sense.

[ra1n85]

Amazed this was downvoted. The willingness to ignore history because it doesn’t fit in with some folks’ perception of the world is fully on display here.