Posted on 07/05/2021 6:06:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
American forces left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield over the weekend without notifying the new commander from the Kabul government — giving looters precious time to swipe anything that was not bolted down, shocking photos show.
The US announced Friday that it had vacated Bagram as part of a final withdrawal the Pentagon says will be completed by the end of August. It is Afghanistan’s largest airfield and was the hub of America’s 20-year campaign to remove the Taliban from government, track down Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda cohorts, and keep the country’s fragile elected government in place amid a Taliban resurgence.
However, they apparently forgot to tell the Afghans, cutting the electricity within 20 minutes of their departure and plunging the base into darkness. That acted as a “go” signal for teams of looters who smashed through the north gate and ransacked barracks and storage tents before security forces who had been patrolling the perimeter managed to evict them.
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But somehow the looters knew. What a coincidence
I doubt if anyone is that surprised about this.
I only hope the computers with sensitive data were already taken by the Americans. At least this time, trucks and new cars weren’t left in abundance. I think that happened when we left Iraq. Hamas seized those vehicles immediately.
They have democrats there? Just like North Michigan Ave. in Chicago!
Dems and Rinos in charge . . . We leave behind a good airfield, weapons, armored vehicles and locals that risked their lives helping us.
Crazy inflation and economic crises
Yeah, we’ve been through this before.
This sure looks like........Fake news!!
A trillion dollars and thousands of American lives wasted trying to “train”these savages.
What a ******* waste.
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Clue....The looters ARE the Afghan Government.
Sand joggers
𝘐𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘷𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 — 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘬𝘦𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 — 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘷𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴.
What could possibly go wrong?
Yup. All this for nothing. When they’re ready to jettison their 7th century death cult, give us a call.
Does this mean Afghanistan won the war?
When they’re ready to jettison their 7th century death cult, give us a call.
My daughter was born Sept 4 2001 - she had been home 4 days when 9-11 occured, she will be 20 in 2 months. We will not get that call in her lifetime.
As long as we aren’t there, nothing.
The Taliban did. All they had to do was wait us out.
I wonder if the trillion dollars could have been better spent protecting our OWN borders... wouldn't it be great if the effing 'brass' considered protecting the United States for a change?
Warming up for a Portland love in this summer?
I think seeing US load up the good stuff on C-17s was the give away.
Vietnam all over again
I think this was strategically wise.
I believe they would have bombed, attacked Americans and made fake films of all the innocent people being harmed by the departure of Americans. Many efforts to try to force them to stay or harm them as they exit.
This way, they can plant malware or spy content on the laptops or leave scrubbed ones for the Afghan Allies. Moving all that takes time and money, likely more than that which is saved taking it. REgardless, I think the Deep State wanted to keep us there and ours slipped the chain!
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