Those who left and those who could not flee speak of a country in ruins and decry the world’s apathy towards the humanitarian crisis and the lack of rights, mainly for women, which a UN report describes as ‘gender apartheid’
They’re not saying the withdrawal was quick, they’re saying the takeover after the withdrawal was quick. Which it was, Pentagon officials said it was faster than all their estimates.
The gov had poor control over the countryside and the Taliban had infiltrated everywhere and was just laying in wait. The irony is they are now fighting another, even more extreme Islamic group, Al Qaeda.
The Taliban, AQ, and DAESH/IS/ISIL/ISIS have very different goals. The Taliban wants a theocracy in Afghanistan they control. AQ wants a caliphate in Mecca and the overthrow of the House of Saud. DAESH/ISIS wants a one world caliphate that they control.
They’re not saying the withdrawal was quick, they’re saying the takeover after the withdrawal was quick. Which it was, Pentagon officials said it was faster than all their estimates.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/08/16/how-afghanistan-fell-to-the-taliban-so-quickly.html
The gov had poor control over the countryside and the Taliban had infiltrated everywhere and was just laying in wait. The irony is they are now fighting another, even more extreme Islamic group, Al Qaeda.
The Taliban, AQ, and DAESH/IS/ISIL/ISIS have very different goals. The Taliban wants a theocracy in Afghanistan they control. AQ wants a caliphate in Mecca and the overthrow of the House of Saud. DAESH/ISIS wants a one world caliphate that they control.