In a short term and isolated perspective this may be so. But in a geo-strategic longer term perspective it doesn't hold. The US doesn't WANT the help of Iran or to in any way be seen as legitimising the Iranian regime. Even if it would be helpful right now. Remember the Neocon "joke" : "Everyone wants to go to Baghdad, real men wants to go to Teheran". This still stands, but has been postponed due to lack of momentary capacity.
So as to make sure they have a say in the future course for Afghanistan. Their main worry is that Afghanistan beccomes a stable nation allied with their arch enemy India. Also, they were pretty much told after 9/11 that "either you suppport us or we bomb you back to the stone age". They know full well that the US still wields the by far most potent military force on earth and they do not want its crosshairs on themselves.
Your simplified worldview and your faliure to understand the potence of a guerilla movment like the Taliban clouds your judgement. You come up with lots of your own wishful thinking and try to make it trustworthy by throwing in unsubstantiated claims about the capacity of this or that division from this or that security force.
Fact of the matter is that most ANSF suffer from high degrees of desertion, lack of capacity, lack of motivation other than the next paycheck, lack of training, lack of even litteracy. Yet you portray them as on the verge of success. Ignorant, or willfully ignorant? I can't tell with you.
In a short term and isolated perspective this may be so. But in a geo-strategic longer term perspective it doesn't hold. The US doesn't WANT the help of Iran or to in any way be seen as legitimising the Iranian regime. Even if it would be helpful right now. Remember the Neocon "joke" : "Everyone wants to go to Baghdad, real men wants to go to Teheran". This still stands, but has been postponed due to lack of momentary capacity.
So as to make sure they have a say in the future course for Afghanistan. Their main worry is that Afghanistan beccomes a stable nation allied with their arch enemy India. Also, they were pretty much told after 9/11 that "either you suppport us or we bomb you back to the stone age". They know full well that the US still wields the by far most potent military force on earth and they do not want its crosshairs on themselves.
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Your simplified worldview and your faliure to understand the potence of a guerilla movment like the Taliban clouds your judgement. You come up with lots of your own wishful thinking and try to make it trustworthy by throwing in unsubstantiated claims about the capacity of this or that division from this or that security force.
Fact of the matter is that most ANSF suffer from high degrees of desertion, lack of capacity, lack of motivation other than the next paycheck, lack of training, lack of even litteracy. Yet you portray them as on the verge of success. Ignorant, or willfully ignorant? I can't tell with you.