The shocking collapse of Afghan military amidst the advance of Taliban is more than a great danger - there needs a complete re-examination on the U.S. policies
I'll take an example of a far away past. In 1950, when North Korea, armed to teeth by the Soviet Union, invaded the poorly organised South, the South was nearly overrun. The United States and her allies came to intervene, successfully curbed the communist expansion, and saved the South, recovered Seoul, before a ceasefire treaty was signed in 1953, temporarily halted all hostilities. Since 1953, South Korea began its sojourn journey from a completely devastated nation to become one of the greatest economic prospects in the modern world. All were achieved under a similar American-backed system. However, with the exception of South Korea, almost every America-backed government collapsed immediately when the United States began the process of leaving. Why? And what happened? South Korea's success should have been copied. Instead, what we saw was South Vietnam, Iraq and most recently, Afghanistan - where America-backed administrations collapsed horrendously. What makes them lack so...