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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I don't know if we 100% caused this. We gave the Afghan government and army everything. Resources, infrastructire, training, weapons and they didn't last a day?
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I saw a quote from someone in the US military who basically said that they had a lot of equipment and such set, but you have to be willing to fight. I have no idea how accurate that is, but that seems to make some sense here given how fast things fell.
And as far as Canada, I think we were caught flat-footed. Once the US pulled up stakes, we were done because we had no option. Maybe we thought we could get people out over the coming months? A week later and the country has fallen though, so by that point there was no way we could’ve acted to get everyone out.
I don’t think that absolves the government of anything, but it does give a plausible explanation aside from “we just decided to leave and let these people be slaughtered”.