Legitimate-Cow-6859 t1_iujmqjc wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:46 PM

Reply to comment by _baundiesel_ in Russia recruiting U.S.-trained Afghan commandos, vets say by 29PiecesOfSilver

I mean Afghanistan is complicated. It’s more of a large set of tribes than a nation state like we think. What is “their land”, really?

Plus the military that we established there was modeled after the US military - an advanced mechanized military that requires financial and logistical support that simply isn’t possible for a nation like Afghanistan. Are you going to stand and die when the air support suddenly stops?

Not to mention all the corruption, some of which was actively supported by the US, as well as a decent amount of anti-US sentiment that was empowered by civilian deaths and people being abducted to gitmo on suspicion of terrorist activity.

_baundiesel_ t1_iujn7fm wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:49 PM

Okay. lol

Legitimate-Cow-6859 t1_iujnjye wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:52 PM

I’m just saying, the situation is a lot more complicated than “they wouldn’t fight for their land,” which itself is an easy comment to make. Assuming that you’ve never had to fight for your own land, and risk death for an almost certain lost cause

_baundiesel_ t1_iujnnwb wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:53 PM

That's fair.

Legitimate-Cow-6859 t1_iujof5x wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:58 PM

Check out “no good men among the living”

It’s a really good book written in 2015 that’s part history going back to the invasion by the USSR, part contemporary story involving interviews with a US soldier, an afghan civilian, and a taliban leader. Great insight into the situation