Posted on 08/31/2021 6:43:56 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
The Highway of Death was a portent. It looked so bad on the nightly news, a la Viet Nam, but there were no bodies. The News got fixated on its own mirror. It was a Hwy of Death of trucks and tanks.
But it was days of future past, because when Arabs and their clients suffer a mechanical breakdown, they don't have the attention span to get it repaired so they can continue on their killer rampage, they just walk away from it.
But the Taliban have become the proprietors of a brand spanking new, mobile used car lot of some of the most finicky, temperamental military hardware in human history. (Maybe Biden will sign a service agreement with them.)
Along the way, their former mode of war, asymmetric, is lost to them forever. You can't be highly mobile raiders, suddenly appearing out of mountain ravines and disappearing into caves, when you've got thousands of military vehicles to protect.
The last time the Muslim world threw a monkey wrench into the world's works, was 9/11. Before that it was the Arab Oil Embargo. But it is the Americans who will have the last laugh this time. We have recruited them into our camp.
If all Americans had been removed then the weapons left behind could then be destroyed. Now the terrorists have hundreds of hostages.
What might do the most damage won’t be the vehicles or equipment but the uniforms. Anytime the Taliban raids someone, any survivor is going to report that American soldiers attacked. We will even have smartphone video of these attacks. The press will make these videos widely available, leaving the impression that American forces have basically become pirates.
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