People clinging to planes leaving Kabul as they take off fall to their deaths.
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The US spent over $80 billion training the Afghan military and they folded in a week, in most cases without a single shot fired. They either switched the sides and started to fight for the Taliban or they just ran away.
The only way the stop the Taliban is to keep Afghanistan occupied by US military forces for several generations. And absolutely nobody is in favour of that.
Well, that's not the only way. You could harness the power of the atom to make the region uninhabitable for the next ten thousand years.
Don't need to go that far, conventional bombs are plenty big enough, we don't want radioactive oil and rare earth metals. Not that much money for weapon companies in using a nuke, one and done, but to buy the planes and drones and enough bombs to drop for a solid year, that's some big bucks to divert to election campaigns.