It is well documented that US military contractors provided direct payments to 'the taliban', to the tune of a sum well in the billions of dollars over the course of the now lost war. Further, the US also provides billions in assistance to Pakistan, which is the prime mover of all organized taliban activities. So no, the Afghan government's troops were not cowardly, they didn't fail to hold some type of line that the U.S had created over two decades, no such control was ever instantiated, in fact the opposite occured. 'The taliban', instead of being confronted militarily, were paid to wait until the U.S withdrawal. "The taliban" held Afghanistan essentially the entire length of the US occupation, and built up their foreign diplomatic capacity in the mean time. The narrative that asserts that the situation we are seeing now is somehow more complicated than 'The US funded the taliban lol' is so brain dead and divorced from reality that I refuse to discuss it further, except for to say that from the beginning the entire war project was mainly a way of diverting tax payer dollars into the hands of war profiteering corporations and everyone who was paying attention knows this. As usual it will be civilians in Afghanistan who have to pay the real price for US arrogance and denialism when the bill finally comes due.
there is simply no way of having a productive discussion with someone who adamantly asserts that their ignorance is as good your facts and I encourage other users to not encourage such people by engaging with their posts.
there is simply no way of having a productive discussion with someone who adamantly asserts that their ignorance is as good your facts and I encourage other users to not encourage such people by engaging with their posts.
, after all, in a major break from economic 'science' (economics is actually an art) it went ahead and spent money on things.