99% of Afghans didn't resist at all, is the problem. Nearly the entire military and police force just walked off the job as soon as they saw the Taliban come over the horizon.
America occupied that country for a generation. If 20 years isn't enough to teach them to fight for themselves, no amount of additional American intervention would've been enough.
They did. Thousands died already after the Americans left them (left them for dead), more than 6,000 regulars killed in just one last month, not even counting police and militia forces, which is way more than the Americans lost in hundreds of months before America surrendered and also on top of massive losses in the previous months. Many hundreds of them just went missing in the way that they're known as dead but their families couldn't find their bodies to bury due to the chaos. Military hospitals got overflown with wounded even before medevac helicopters stopped flying. Hundreds were killed even in the area of Kabul that fell "without a battle" (the surrender also arranged by the Americans).
America refused to help the Afghan resistance (which continues, but it's not the fighting season yet) in any way whatsoever.
Iran does instead: https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/afghan-resistance-leader-ahmad-massoud-rejects-taliban-safe-passage-offer-1899756-2022-01-13 (and India, but India has no direct access).
99% of Afghans didn't resist at all, is the problem. Nearly the entire military and police force just walked off the job as soon as they saw the Taliban come over the horizon.
America occupied that country for a generation. If 20 years isn't enough to teach them to fight for themselves, no amount of additional American intervention would've been enough.
They did. Thousands died already after the Americans left them (left them for dead), more than 6,000 regulars killed in just one last month, not even counting police and militia forces, which is way more than the Americans lost in hundreds of months before America surrendered and also on top of massive losses in the previous months. Many hundreds of them just went missing in the way that they're known as dead but their families couldn't find their bodies to bury due to the chaos. Military hospitals got overflown with wounded even before medevac helicopters stopped flying. Hundreds were killed even in the area of Kabul that fell "without a battle" (the surrender also arranged by the Americans).