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I think a lot of those trained had allegiances to the Taliban. Many reports of this but was ignored by higher ups.

• A4ET8a8uTh0 5y ago
  I think what we have here is a failure to understand population motivations. I do not want to overstate this, but it seems to be lost over the fact that it was two decades now. US was the invader here. You can train all you want, but those people are not idiots or easily swayed. They survived multiple regime changes, coups, upheavals and this is just another one of them. As insane as it sounds, in that frame of mind, Taliban is a lesser evil here compared to a foreign adversary that walks around like they own the place. Once you understand this, and by this I mean "the population does not want you here and sees you as the invader", none of this is a surprise. Next up, just wait till you hear what population of Iraq wants ( but we all know US simply cannot leave Iraq -- ever ).