I was deployed in Afghanistan in 2013

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49. Thank you for confirmng waht I've been saying from an historical viewpoint

and from talking to people who were there, both Afghans and US military who got out alive.

"Inevitable" is the only word I could come up with. The only group organized enough to take the country were the Taliban. Our embassy really does need to be evacuated sooner rather than later, otherwise it will either be a rout or a hostage situation.

Afghanistan is not the US. We are not going to like how they run their country, especially in the short term when they will want to eradicate any western ideas that have been taught over the last 20 years. What I hope for them is what they were becoming before the USSR fouled things up so badly, a slowly modernizing country with cautious contact with the west.

They've been through 40 years of conflict, so that's likely to take a very long time.