Posted on 08/10/2021 3:40:26 AM PDT by blueplum
Aibak, capital of Afghanistan's Samangan province, has fallen to the Taliban
Regional governor said Islamists are now in 'full control' of the northern city
It marks the sixth regional capital that the Taliban has captured in less than a week, after Kunduz, Sar-e-Pul, Taloqan, Zaranj and Sheberghan also fell
Meanwhile it was revealed that pilots are abandoning the Afghan air force after being targeted for assassination, leaving troops without air support
...Eight pilots have been killed in recent weeks, with Hamidullah Azimi - a Black Hawk pilot - the latest to die after being blown up near the capital Kabul on Saturday. Azimi was killed by a sticky bomb attached to his car which detonated, wounding five civilians who were nearby.
Speaking anonymously to The Times, one pilot said he knows of 19 colleagues who have deserted the air force in recent weeks because the government could not guarantee their safety.
'I have been flying for ten years. From the day I put on my uniform I swore to defend my country until the last drop of blood ... but seeing my friends assassinated ... I do not feel safe,' he said.
'I have to change the car I use every single day...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It just took one Democrat president for a country to fall.
After 20 years, seems like we didn’t train them very well.
Not surprising with the neutered military we’ve had for well over a decade. They probably trained them on the finer points of putting on makeup.
Do the airplanes left behind include cash from the O’biden regime ?
Saw our enemyized humdees on one news last night. I take it that someone’s orders were to not demilitarize but leave behind. Goes right along with punish you enimy help your friend.
Sleepy Joe takes a page out of Stumblin’ Jerry Ford’s playbook.
Our military was not allowed to interfere much with drug production and men buggering boys but interfered in making sure that girls could go to school. The Taliban will reverse those, definitely in regards to the girls, and will rule Afghanistan. We really know how to pick a winning strategy.
Either their military steps up and kicks ass or the country will descend into darkness again. It’s that simple. And it’s up to them.
CC
Not quite accurate. They were trained well enough. They have no will to use it.
Are the poppy fields OK? And is the Big Guy still getting 10% ?
They are trying to suck us back in for another 20 years. Let Europe deal with it for a change.
It might be interesting to confront an aging Dick Cheney and ask him how he thought all of this was going to end in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Ask him if any of this was worth the lives of so many young Americans who died and many more disabled for life. Ask him if the trillions of taxpayer dollars wasted there was money well spent.
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