The Taliban don’t have air support. You would think a 300,000 person army would have more than two testicles among them.
I think they could fight back if they wanted to. Instead, I saw military-aged men at the airport trying to evacuate their country, leaving their women to the Taliban.
I’m guessing your husband, or any other man you know, would not allow that to happen to you.
What the rank and file were facing was not the well equipped 300,000 person army the news would have you believe. It’s coming out that those numbers were inflated. There was corruption among the officials who took salaries for “ghost” soldiers, and who did not pay the real ones. There were food shortages. There were threats and propaganda from the Taliban who also started finding and executing the most trained among them well before the surge started. There was very low morale. This opposed to the well motivated guerrillas of the Taliban. We, the American public, have been misled because our billions of tax dollars were funding it.
Each one of them is facing certain execution probably not quick and painless. It’s a rare person with enough balls to face that certainty by yourself when all those around you are fleeing. The failure was the leadership in the military and the politicians. You can criticize the soldiers for lack of balls, go ahead, but it pissed me off when Biden, more filthy and corrupt than all <300,000 of the rank and file soldiers in Afghanistan put together, accuses them of cowardice from the comfort of the White House.
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