Comments by "andy99ish" (@andy99ish) on "Trump and Biden are ‘Tweedledee and Tweedledum’ on Afghanistan withdrawal, says John Bolton" video.

That does not add up. It is said that nearly all Afghans are terrified. If so, why did the Taliban not encounter opposition ? Some fundamental bits are missing in this puzzle.
12
@InternetMoneyPE Thanks for trying. Well, they did have a government and however unpopular it was we are made to believe that it was clearly preferable to Taliban rule. And the government disbanded only after not being defended, not the other way round. The issue of not being paid / fed properly can be a small element of the puzzle, yet not one big enough to fill the yawning gap: We are talking about government Armed Forces of 300,000 persons with full air superiority versus 75,000 Taliban troops. Regarding the all-important motivation of the Afghan Armed Forces- if they really deemed the Taliban threat to be a matter of life and death then the issue of being paid in time (or even being paid at all) should not have been decisive.
3
 @herbertusfrohlich2079 That there is an endless war is true for ALL sides. So why does this fact demoralize only one party of the conflict ?
2
@herbertusfrohlich2079 Indeed. My guess is that it is the relatively modern city people of Kabul who do not like the Taliban. But that the rest of the country is OK with them.
2
@InternetMoneyPE The USA does support countries which are breeding grounds for terrorism since many decades. Namely Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Americans always look out for the good guys. However in some regions of the world there are no truly good guys.
1
@hamidhamidi3134 Your first paragraph is not very convincing. The Afghan Air Force had 210 aircraft. The Taliban zero. That the Afghan Army had no intelligence in their own country would be very astonishing. And we are not talking about conquering Taliban regions, which would be very hard in asymmetric warfare indeed. But about defeating their attacks on other regions and Kabul. Second paragraph: The weakening of the Northern alliance is a new topic, thanks. I will dig into that.
1