The fall of post invasion Iraq

[Fidel_Castronaut]

At least in Iraq there is Iran to help keep the whole mess from turning into a Sunni terrorist state. What do you suppose will be the reaction when Taliban takes over Afghanistan?

An increasingly unstable Pakistan, and a very nervous India.

What is so odd about Afghanistan is that everyone pretty much knows that the Taliban are going to reassert themselves. It's almost taken as a given that the Afghani National Army is going to fail miserably against them and without ISAF support. Indeed, a lot of the AHD seem intent on shooting their own trainers at the moment and I have no doubt they will defect as soon as the last ISAF soldier leaves the ground. So in effect we've giving weapons and training to people who will then turn against the Afghan government and by reduction us. Hmm, wonder when that's happened in the past?

And the whole 10+ year war would have effectively been for naught.