re: #23 Targetpractice

We spent $88 billion over the last 20 years standing up, arming, and training the Afghan National Army. So where are they? Oh right, same place the Iraqi Army was when we first started pulling troops out and turning over combat duties to them: Running for their lives because they’d thought the whole “playing army” gig was an easy way to make money, they never thought they’d actually have to fight.

I wonder how many of them just accepted that it was a good paycheck while it lasted. Maybe they never were against the Taliban; just taking what was on offer as a way to support their families. If the US was going to pull out eventually, they would take the money while it lasted, and then shed that job like they were scooping fries at McDonalds.