men and women who may be frightened, rudderless, leaderless? rudderless, leaderless? you nailed it. the challenge rudderless, leaderless? you nailed it. the challenge of rudderless, leaderless? you nailed it. the challenge of the rudderless, leaderless? you nailed it. the challenge of the last - rudderless, leaderless? you nailed it. the challenge of the last few i it. the challenge of the last few days was not necessarily a reflection of afghan military competence, that is certainly a question in the way we designed it, but it was largely if you are out there, and you are not hearing from a central government that is giving you a clear and coherent message and is demonstrating the will to fight, then why would you? particularly if you are built and thrown into this hodgepodge military, they are not really sure who runs, because one of the fundamental flaws that we made is that we built a military that looked like hours on paper, but it did not reflect the true power structures b
you read carefully, from the akerson group, we knew that building a house of cards, the afghan study group, and if we kept propping up the afghan ministry, that by somehow, by magic, illegitimate government would come into being, that could gain the loyalty of that military, and use it effectively against the taliban. the problem was there was nobody ever working on that, and many of the things we were doing in building the afghan forces was working directly against our ability to build something that was going to last. when you think about the us military and other international forces working to build up the afghan security forces, and then you see how quickly they crumples, i don t know how much you feel condemnation or how much empathy for, i suppose, men and women who may be frightened, rudderless, leaderless? you