Intelligence Reports From Afghanistan Missed One Key Element: Speed

said the government of President Ashraf Ghani could collapse in as soon as six months after the U.S. withdrew its troops from Afghanistan.

By last week, with the Taliban rapidly taking over provincial capitals, a revised estimate gave the Ghani government as little as a month to survive. On Sunday,In recent days, Biden administration officials publicly and privately expressed their surprise at through the country, overtaking one provincial capital after another while Afghan forces barely put up a fight.the swift collapse of the Afghanistan government

, saying a number of factors contributed to the miscalculation, including the speed of the Biden administration’s withdrawal and the fact that the military contractors left as well. ​According to an administration official, military planners believed that “speed equals safety.” “Once we made the decision to go, it was important that we go efficiently, to protect our forces,” the official added. “Our departure timeline was clearly communicated to all parties, including Afghan forces and our partners.”

I think USA should stop pretending to not have known what is having. This is a planned move. Country with one of the world's most sophisticated Army and Intelligence fails to understand Taliban's movements !! Seriously ?!

Malpractice !’

History repeals itself― 'So, until we know the enemy and know our allies and know ourselves, we'd better keep out of this kind of dirty business. It's very dangerous.' Sounds quite new, but actually is more than half a century old (noted by General Maxwell Taylor).

It was a total intelligence failure.

American people dont know about geography and history. How do you think is it possible for them to know Afghanistan?

Not the real question. Question is how have the taliban remained active for so many years? Literally, there were so powerful that they overthrew a state army in less than 24 hours. Who’s funding them?

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Do you really expect me to believe that our 'officials' were 'surprised?' They've been working with these people for 20 years and they were surprised? No.

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Saying that we will bring democracy countries occupying As the imperialist USA fled, leaves behind chaos, millions of immigrants, death and instability!

As a foreigner non American. No country is watching this s*t show go down still thinking that the usa is a super power. We heard more interviews from the taliban then the president

Afghanistan is a Biden disaster. Actually, it is just one of many: high gas prices, inflation, out of control spending, no border control, etc.

And why is that? Because the Afghan armed forces we trained & spent billions on for 2 decades decided not to fight. Some switched allegiance to the Taliban & others straight up surrendered. This is PURELY a failure of the Afghan gov and its armed forces to protect their people.

In fact I was not surprised at all for Taliban has get the most support from Afgnan people.

'expressed' = likely feigned surprise. it's impossible that they did not see this coming. The 'we're just a surprised as you are', 'we read about it like you in the paper' shtick is much easier to navigate politically.

Saigon2.0 Will Talibans organize a victory parade in Kabul? MissionAccomplished

The US and NATO, who spent 2 trillion dollars invading Afghanistan, left behind only millions of immigrants, deaths and instability! The 20-year US occupation of Afghanistan is over! After Vietnam,Iraq and Libya, the USA,which withdrew from Afghanistan, was defeated once again!

They wanted Taliban to run the country

horrible

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2 days ago Joe Biden's staff were telling us that Kabul wasn't under imminent threat lol. 2 days.

So sad!

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