Depressing Afghanistan daily update

Pentagon Edition. Michael Cohen raises the most obvious implication of the very depressing report:

So not only is the ANSF [the Afghanistan army] unable to provide security in the key districts where they and US troops are located…even if they were able to muster up a military force that was even marginally competent the lack of “rule of law structures” would make such security basically illusory…why are we continuing on a mission – that by the military’s own analysis – is almost certainly out of the scope of our capabilities and the capabilities of our host country partner? And perhaps more directly, why aren’t our civilian policymakers asking this question of the uniformed military?

Prediction: The Battle of “Who Lost Afghanistan” is going to be ugly.