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The Taliban on Saturday captured Mazar-e-Sharif, a large, supposedly heavily defended city in northern Afghanistan. They are approaching the capital of Kabul.<\/p>\n
The fall of the country\u2019s fourth largest city hands them control over all of northern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
The Taliban have made major advances in recent days, capturing the country\u2019s second- and third-largest cities, Herat and Kandahar. They now are in control of about 24 of Afghanistan\u2019s 34 provinces, leaving the Western-backed government with provinces scattered in the center and east, and Kabul.<\/p>\n
They are also seizing Western funded weapons and other equipment\u00a0 abandoned by the Afghan military and using them to further their attacks.<\/p>\n
David sends.<\/p>\n
The United States spent billions supplying the Afghan military with the tools to defeat the Taliban, but the rapid capitulation of the armed forces means that weaponry is now fuelling the insurgents\u2019 astonishing battlefield successes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe provided our Afghan partners with all the tools \u2014 let me emphasize: all the tools,\u201d US President Joe Biden said when defending his decision to withdraw American forces and leave the fight to the locals.<\/p>\n
But Afghan defense forces have shown little appetite for that fight and, in their tens of thousands, have been laying down their arms \u2014 only for the Taliban to immediately pick them up.<\/p>\n
The Taliban\u2019s social media is awash with videos of Taliban fighters seizing weapons caches \u2014 the majority supplied by Western powers.<\/p>\n
Footage of Afghan soldiers surrendering in the northern city of Kunduz shows army vehicles loaded with heavy weapons and mounted with artillery guns safely in the hands of the insurgent rank and file.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Any resemblance to the fall of South Viet Nam is purely coincidental.<\/p>\n
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