They did. That's why they stayed so long, there was no one willing to actually do the job and join the military. The taliban is not this massive group of overwhelming forces, it's simply their version of the Afghani UN, only, it actually works. See, it's mainly a group of militias joined with the same common ideology of no whores, no fags, no drugs, uber sharia, and death to outsiders. Almost every town and city is run by a different faction under their normal operating procedures, this will return once they have control and things settle down. You see, they hate other militias almost as much as they hate us. Which is why they always are going backwards in their technology and development. It's going to be a long, bloody slide downhill.