> made them quite willing to hand over power to the Taliban without a fight this year. The most ridiculous I saw from your post: A reasonable citizen, who saw

> made them quite willing to hand over power to the Taliban without a fight this year. The most ridiculous I saw from your post: A reasonable citizen, who saw from the very beginning the ridiculousness of the whole thing, in the end, seems to suggest the whole thing should not end so abruptly?