They have their own divisions, like many countries.

Traditionally, it was village and tribe as the basic identification, and only when invaders came in did they come together to resist.

Sort of like here, where it takes an overt external attack to get us to come together for similar purposes.

Some people now say that we should not have tried to do more than neutralize al Qaeda. But being a wealthy country with a powerful military and lavish budgets to spend led to over stepping what we tried to do.

Having "gone big" and trained and built them up, maybe we should have left a cadre of advisors there to reassure and support the army we created. Just thinking that abrupt loss of our support is probably what led to the collapse.

And maybe we aren't told everything about why we did pull out like we did.

Larry