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by bombcar 1346 days ago
Nobody wants to talk about training the Afghans for 20 years and having them decide to be citizens or Taliban the moment we left.

Training went well, but why would they bother once we're gone?

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have youread nothing about the fact that government was paying salaries of soldiers that did not actually exist, and in fact their commanders were pocketing it.

This whole 'afghans decided not to fight' is really convenient. Like blaming a plane crash on pilot error - nothing to investigate, no defects to correct, the only one at fault is already dead.