Major cities are falling to advancing Taliban fighters with government resistance proving largely ineffective.
General Arnold Punaro, a retired two-star Marine Corps Major General and the former staff director of theFriday:"What is happening was very predictable... I don't think people felt like it was going to happen as quickly as it has."spoke with President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday to"stress the United States remains invested in the security and stability of Afghanistan in the face of violence by the Taliban," according to a read-out from the Department of Defense.
Many observers have noted the similarities between the Taliban advance and both the collapse of Iraqi forces in the face of Islamic State forces in 2014, and thePunaro, who served as an infantry platoon commander in Vietnam, toldthere are clear similarities between America's defeat in that war and the apparent collapse of the Afghan government.
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