Because the only conclusion I have with this whole mess is that Afgans do not want to resist the Taliban. I abhor war, but if this were happening in Canada people, men and women, would fight with whatever they could their hands on.
These people DGAF about "Afghanistan" the nation in the western sense. The nation is not a nation. It's a series of tribes, ethnicity and clans that happen to share an area that is all shaded one color on a map. Those groups are where their allegiances lie. They don't have a multi hundred year history of nationalism like European nations do. Furthermore lots of them don't really want a national government because national governments tend to try to steal power and control by these other institutions and homogenize things which they see as a negative.
The disparity is even more crazy during the battle for Mosul that saw a few hundred ISIS fighters defeat 60k armed forces.
It depends on what are you fighting for. An ideal/belief or money.
The US overthrew the Taliban, but never "liberated" Afghanistan as most of the population was on the Talib side. The alternative was warlords and constant civil war.
...and Pakistan helped quite a bit too :)
[1] from the Afghan population point of view.
B) Smart warlords knew where the wind was blowing when the US decided to withdraw, and defected to the other side. Oh, and previously, the Afghan president was encouraged to alienate the warlords. Though on this, guilt is only shared, since both Ghani and the US wanted to act so stupidly.
C) It's not 75 thousand, that estimate has no legs to stand on, but that's much less important.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab9zK8yT4_Y
Basically Afghanistan is very mountainous and Taliban can just cross the border easily into Pakistan
This...
CBC wrote a brief article on this recently: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/taliban-revival-aug13-1.613...