It's painful watching America's conservative populist pundits struggle to wrap their stupid heads around the root causes behind the Taliban's humiliation of the US.
What's really amazing is how many of their sentiments would have brought nothing but condemnation if not death threats if they'd been voiced during the build up of rationalizations used to justify America's invasion of Afghanistan not to mention Iraq.
The decision to invade Iraq is probably the main reason Afghanistan became such a mess. America cut and ran from it's responsibility in Afghanistan in 2003 not last week.