America is used to proxy wars, but Aqionghan's puppet government is really like mud stuck to a wall...
The Bayer government optimistically believed that, after providing so much support, transferring so much weaponry over the years, and helping train so many soldiers, even if the Aqionghan government couldn't beat the Taliban, they could at least hold the areas under their control.
Old Bayer hadn't been on the front lines for years, and the so-called security advisors in America's White House now are just paper-pushers, while those "overseas warlords" at the Pentagon have always been resistant to withdrawing from Aqionghan...
The current White House is thinking quite strategically; it's not a problem if the regular army withdraws, as they can instead maintain Aqionghan's status through exporting weapons and mercenaries, giving the military-industrial complex an excuse to ease up.
