Pelosi on ‘Billions of Dollars’ of U.S. Military Weaponry Left for Taliban: That’s ‘What Happens When You Withdraw’

CNS News ^ | 8/19/21 | Craig Bannister

[Libloather]

Twenty-five U.S. senators have sent a letter to the Secretary of Defense expressing grave concerns about the threat posed by the U.S. military leaving behind in Afghanistan weaponry, such as UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, which have now fallen into the hands of Taliban forces and their terrorist allies. But, that’s just “what happens when you withdraw,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says.

The senators, led by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), want a full accounting of the military equipment left behind, the equipment that is now in the Taliban’s hands and the Taliban’s ability to use, or learn to use with the help of America’s adversaries, the seized equipment.

“We were horrified to see U.S. equipment – including UH-60 Black Hawks – in the hands of the Taliban,” the senators tell the Defense Secretary.

“It is unconscionable that high-tech military equipment paid for by U.S. taxpayers has fallen into the hands of the Taliban and their terrorist allies,” the senators write. “Securing U.S. assets should have been among the top priorities for the U.S. Department of Defense prior to announcing the withdrawal from Afghanistan.”

“This is what happens when you withdraw. Some stuff, some equipment is left there,” Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday when asked by San Francisco CBS affiliate KPIX about the danger of leaving “tens of billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. military equipment in the hands of the Taliban”:

[MarvinStinson]

WHEN IS THE IMPEACHMENT, NANCY?

[GOPJ]

Pelosi is a fool ... and she's wrong. A sane country would not have left billions of dollars worth of equipment for their enemies to use and to sell for reverse engineering to China, Iran and North Korea.

Democrats were vile fools who helped China. The only real question is 'Was it intentional'?