At least see if they can do a mission on their own. Once.
Were they planning to stay there forever. How retarded is this stuff.
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Afghanistan fell because it was a puppet state, not a nation.
No one who lived and worked there believed in the soul of the nation of Afghanistan because it didn't exist. It was a reality forced on them through foreign occupation, where many yet remember being tribal enemies of their neighbors.
To defend this faux nation the US recruited sellswords and mercenaries in order to bolster the appearance of the Afghani military. However much to the chagrin of the would-be-imperials, these mercenaries acted exactly as mercenaries throughout history have acted. They take your coin and flee at the first sign of danger if not held to direct account by an army at their backs.
And so, as anyone paying attention realized long ago, the moment the US military leaves the hired swords make deals directly with the new leadership and turn over their arms.
We sought to neither usurp nor crush the spirits of those we occupied and this is the pathetic fate we wrought in so doing.