carter malcauzian, he talked about the difference between the afghan army and the taliban, the taliban fight for belief, killing infidels, the army and police fight for money. the taliban are willing to lose their head to fight. how can the army and police compete. it seems to me, one of the things, i'm obviously not an expert in this, but as soon as the american backing and all of the infrastructure was gone, it wasn't a hard conversion to take over. i don't know if that's impugning afghan soldiers generally, it didn't seem like they had the same fight in them anymore. perhaps they were demoralized. >> once you remove air power, it becomes hard. no ground forces anywhere in the world fight. it's unrealistic and unreasonable to expect others to do like wise. we in the united states have a professional army, people who go