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 (DIR) Post #AAM0coEO53WUrUTgES by j3ffjessie@fosstodon.org
       2021-08-15T15:35:35Z
       
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       Really find it humorous the amount of people who only read reports and papers about Afghanistan and think they know why the overall mission failed there and blame it on the US not investing proper training and readying the Afghan people for our Exfil. Contrary to what you have read in political papers and reports, the majority of the Afghan military and or Militia that was trained didn’t actually train. They would show up and sit and complain and leave. They didn’t want to train.
       
 (DIR) Post #AAM0cq98xWW6no2WKu by j3ffjessie@fosstodon.org
       2021-08-15T15:35:35Z
       
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       The soldiers on the ground know it and relayed to higher but there was nothing done except forcing more training on a people that didn’t want us training them. They wanted us gone for the longest time and never took the training or our attempt at readying them for our exit serious and now look at what happened. Soldiers in the military knew this would happen 15 years ago if we ever left. You can’t help people that don’t want to be helped.
       
 (DIR) Post #AAM0cs140XF4bKH61I by j3ffjessie@fosstodon.org
       2021-08-15T15:35:35Z
       
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       A large portion of the regular populace were gracious and wanted our help. You could see it in every town meeting or community policing effort in talking to the local people. However, due to religious sects and how things are run in their country, no matter what we did to prepare them and try to help it was never going to succeed. Those that could fight were either corrupt or scared and showed little to no interest in trying.