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Ye well I agree. It is still astonishing how the army could collapse in this way. I guess the general staff more or less folded in some agreement with the Talibans. There should have been plenty of reports of artillery shelling with civilian causalities otherwise. Some kind of blood bath when high ranking officers have their backs against the wall.

> If you don't give a rat's ass about your cause, and there's a serious possibility of defeat, why would you keep fighting?

Keep fighting? My understanding is that there was no serious effort to fight from the army's side.