That’s why we have an ammo shortage, its was all sent to the Taliban ...
It’s only a problem for the Taliban IF they have dreams of imperialism. Historically, they’ve been more than content to hang out in Afghanistan. Sure, small numbers of folks have came there, trained, and went elsewhere, but they have not exactly tried to “blitzkrieg” anyone militarily.
I realize there is a strong desire to see a silver lining in all this (and there are a few...like finally being out of there), but the whole situation ended up being a giant black hole of American effort.
Who gets the C-RAMS?
We just threw that stuff away. There’s no putting a happy face on it.
An Afghan general said in the NY Times yesterday, when the American contractors left, they took the maintenence knowledge, software updates and key components of many of the weapons systems, so they were useless to the Afghan Army
BILLIONS of taxpayers hard earned money spent on weapons handed over to our enemies.
I want my money back!
F U JOE!
The fact that this happened is treachery on the part of Biden. The Taliban was given plenty of thermite grenades too, which when placed on an engine and ignited will melt through that engine, destroying it. The fact that they weren’t used is unbelieveable.
Burden achieved what obama tried to do- make the Taliban one of the most highly equipped armies in that part of the world.
No telling how many Taliban Biden imported who had bogus or no paper work at all.
But he say everybody can sleep better now he’s in charge.
They will just pull the equipment with horses and camels.
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.