It was. The US was still providing the bulk of the air support and was still in the process of training people. Hell, the Afghani army wasn't even told what time we would be leaving. You remember how much equipment we just abandoned? Let's not pretend this withdrawal was done properly at all.
The Afghani army turned out to be a joke because of weak leadership, lackluster morale, rampant malfeasance, poor logistics and corruption. Government officials also inflated the total number of soldiers.
Biden's role was, of course, a disaster, but the Afghani had been unreliable 'allies' from the very beginning of Bush' foolhardy incursion.
Doesn't that make the disastrous withdrawal even more to blame? Shouldn't the draw down have taken all that into account and made sure they were ready before everyone just left?
Your reasoning doesn't make a lot of sense here, nor does it really help your case of "we shouldn't help the guys who worked directly for us" don't you think those guys might be the ones we would want here? The ones who will be grateful to us instead of the masses of assholes coming through Mexico?
Wouldn't you if your entire air force just fucking left without finishing training you?
Was that really the case? I don't think so.
It was. The US was still providing the bulk of the air support and was still in the process of training people. Hell, the Afghani army wasn't even told what time we would be leaving. You remember how much equipment we just abandoned? Let's not pretend this withdrawal was done properly at all.
The Afghani army turned out to be a joke because of weak leadership, lackluster morale, rampant malfeasance, poor logistics and corruption. Government officials also inflated the total number of soldiers.
Biden's role was, of course, a disaster, but the Afghani had been unreliable 'allies' from the very beginning of Bush' foolhardy incursion.
Doesn't that make the disastrous withdrawal even more to blame? Shouldn't the draw down have taken all that into account and made sure they were ready before everyone just left?
Your reasoning doesn't make a lot of sense here, nor does it really help your case of "we shouldn't help the guys who worked directly for us" don't you think those guys might be the ones we would want here? The ones who will be grateful to us instead of the masses of assholes coming through Mexico?