By Buck Sexton
AFTER 20 YEARS OFWAR, AFGHANISTAN COLLAPSED IN DAYS
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We are witnessing the biggest foreign policy blunder in years... possibly decades. A Taliban blitzkrieg that started in May has seized the entire country in a flash. Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, fell without any meaningful resistance. The now former president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, has ignominiously fled the country. The supposedly 300,000-strong Afghan army melted away in the face of the determined fundamentalist assault of the Talibs. As recently as Friday, August 13, the U.S. and Afghan governments were insistent that Kabul would hold and there would be meaningful pushback against the Taliban advance. By Monday, August 16, there were videos of Taliban soldiers working out on the elliptical machines in the private gym of the Afghan presidential palace.
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