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It another way. when you had the government of afghanistan, the leader of that government get into a plane and taking off and going to another country, when you saw the significant collapse of the afghan troops we had trained, up to 300,000 of them, just leaving their equipment and taking off, that was that s what happened. that s simply what happened. we ve all seen the pictures. we ve seen hundreds of people packed into a c-17. that was five days ago. what did you think when you first saw those pictures? what i thought is we have to gain control of this, we have to move this more quickly, we have to move in a way in which we can take control of that airport, and we did. you don t think this could have been handled better in any way? no mistakes? no.
WayAfghan-central-governmentAfghanistanPlaneLeaderCountryTroopsUp-toEquipmentCollapse300000PeopleA 300,000-person army with a decent air force collapsed in a matter of days. and that type of morale breaking is an indication of a complete lack of leadership from afghan central government. well, you know that the argument from people who disagree with how this was done, not necessarily people who think that we should continue to have a presence there, is that the u.s. provided logistical support, the u.s. provided especially through contractors technical support for the air force, and then when you have trump saying the troops need to come out, biden saying troops need to come out and all that support coming out, it s not a surprise that the afghan military would crumble as it did. the fact that after 20 years and $80 billion plus, the afghan military wasn t capable of fighting for more than a week on its own two legs is really indicative of the fact that there was no political end game for the counterinsurgency.
PeopleAfghan-central-governmentArgumentMatterIndicationLeadershipTypeMorale-breakingAir-forceBlack300000UsHis plans. the afghan central government s control dropped to only about 65% of the country s districts. some of the data i ve cited comes from a powerful new book the american war in afghanistan by a civilian officer in helman province. drawing his conclusions from the book in a political essay, he begins by noting there can be little doubt that we lost the war. the united states spent 20 years, $2 trillion, commanded at its peak 130,000 coalition troops, built up an afghan security force of 300,000, at least on paper, and used the world s most sophisticated and lethal air power. still, it was unable to defeat an ill-equipped taliban force of
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