Posted on 08/13/2021 9:15:35 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
The Taliban has seized scores of American weapons and military equipment from Afghan security forces as the terrorist group accelerates its takeover following the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country.
Taliban terrorists are now in possession of U.S.-made military vehicles, anti-aircraft guns, armored tanks, and artillery. The munitions were provided to Afghan security forces to secure the country as the United States ends its two-decade war there. The Taliban have overwhelmed Afghan forces, taking over key Afghan provinces and using U.S. weapons to power the offensive.
"These captured systems will increase the mobility and lethality of the Taliban, making them a more formidable adversary," said Bradley Bowman, senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. "We have already seen the Taliban using captured humvees to patrol Kunduz and Sar-e Pol."
With the situation in Afghanistan deteriorating, the United States announced that it is sending 3,000 troops back into the country to help evacuate the vulnerable American embassy in Kabul. President Joe Biden left for vacation shortly after the announcement. Vice President Kamala Harris dodged questions about the situation on Thursday afternoon, when a reporter asked if "Afghanistan is lost to the Taliban." Harris would not answer, but said she would be briefed on the matter.
Military experts fear Afghanistan will once again become a breeding ground for terrorists and militant groups like al Qaeda.
Annie Aleman, a GOP strategist with the American Security Project, predicted on Thursday that Kabul could soon fall to the Taliban.
"It is very reasonable to expect that Kabul will fall by the 20th anniversary of 9/11 this year," Aleman said.
Bowman said the situation warrants increased U.S. airstrikes in the country to ensure the Taliban cannot make further inroads.
"Concerns regarding the captured artillery have prompted U.S. airstrikes," Bowman said. "Hopefully those U.S. airstrikes will increase and continue beyond the August 31 deadline. American support for the Afghan security forces is not charity. It is helping a brave partner fight a common enemy over there so that they can’t target us here."
Biden administration officials, he said, "appear to have forgotten one of the core lessons of 9/11: What happens there can hurt us here."
Taliban terrorists are now in possession of U.S.-made military vehicles, anti-aircraft guns, armored tanks, and artillery.
As SNL skit person used to say: “Oh, I hate when that happens.”
leaving that stuff behind to inept Afghan troops was NOT smart, but neither is Slo Joe!!
Just transferring arms to the terrorists who hate us. Because we hate us too.
Nothing to see here.
They had 6 months to ship them back, could have sold them off, what a continual waste of taxpayer funds.
Biden lost Afghanistan.,
Not funny. Thousands of maimed troops, and for what?
Hey Joe....nice exit strategy ya got there! MORON
Cool. I’m sure they’ll be a great market.
Maybe we can encourage them into raiding into Pakistan.
Actually, what kind of a Commander in Chief orders a military pullout (retreat) and doesn’t take the heavy equipment along with the troops out?
A friend who served in Vietnam told me the withdrawal of troops was where one of his closest buddies got killed. A dangerous time.
How depressing. It’s 20 years after September 11th, and the government we overthrew because they gave safe haven to Bin Laden is back.
Will they again provide a base of operations for Muslim terrorists? Time will tell.
Hopefully the government has kill switches so they can deactivate the equipment.
But, knowing the incompetence of our government I don’t expect that to be an option.
The Taliban has seized scores of American weapons and military equipment from Afghan security forces
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Its a bonanza for the Taliban but it also works out for our military establishment and their friends in the defense industry who will get contracts to replace the abandoned equipment to the tune of billions of dollars.
You are right.
I apologize for levity.
Our troops are in constant danger and have no guarantee they will make it back and we have no real President to lead.
Please see my post #11.
May God protect them.
It would have been racist if we took our toys home. Blood and treasure lost reminds me of Kipling:
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of Biden the daft old Queen!
Saigon repeated, The Taliban, Al Qaeda lives once again to attack the USA, etc....thanks to Biden & Harris!!!!! Wake up Americans...Phonies & Failures, Biden & Harris must be removed from office quickly!!! Call your “ALL” your Congress Critters today and let them know you want Biden and Harris canned!!!
Barak Obama circa 2012
Should be easy targets for B-52s.
They will be sending samples to China.
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