Here's the deal--- just so everyone understands.
We didn't just go "fvck it, we don't need those MRAPs or Humvees or armored personel carriers anymore so let's just leave them here."
Not what happened at all. We outfitted the Afghan forces with this stuff. We gave then all these toys, M4s, M-16s, m249s, pistols, even some shoulder fired toys-- so they could hold off thevTaliban when we left. Problem was, the Afghan army's paychecks were bouncing. So commanders were simply stealing shit, driving it to the border and selling it to Iran.
Now when President Houseplant shit the bed, the Talibam saw their opportunity to capitalize-- and they did. Used to the Afghans could grab a radio and tell our guys what hut the bad guys were hiding in, and some drone pilot in Virginia would make it go boom. But here comes the Tali, and when Habeeb picks up the radio to squawk and all he gets back is static, he does a quick mental calculation. He adds up how many Tali he sees coming at him, subtracts the number of bombs that can't now be dropped on them cause there's nobody answering on the talk box, multiplies that by how many of his last pay checks bounced, and quickly decides that shedding the uniform and abandoning his 450,000 MRAP ain't a bad fvcking idea.
Tali come along and see a perfectly good MRAP with a full tank and keys in the ignition so they upgrade from that shit Toyota hooptie they've been bumming around in for 20 years.
And that happened everywhere. The afghans aren't loyal to their country. They're loyal to their tribe. Ask Fresh-- he'll tell you. JSOC was given afghan soldiers to augment their units and when the shit hit the fan, the afghans would often run and hide. Hell, I've got a buddy that said at Tora Bora every night the afghans would vanish, and the reappear the next morning because they were afraid the Tali would come at night and kill them. He said one day they engaged some dudes dressed in all black-- what the Chechans wear in battle. Brutal fvckers. The afghans knew if the Chechens killed them, their bodies would be desecrated, thus preventing them from going to heaven. So they would literally drop their rifles and run at the sight of all black clad dudes.