Posted on 08/14/2021 4:59:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Kabul (AFP) - The United States spent billions supplying the Afghan military with the tools to defeat the Taliban, but the rapid capitulation of the armed forces means that weaponry is now fuelling the insurgents' astonishing battlefield successes.
"We provided our Afghan partners with all the tools -- let me emphasise: all the tools," US President Joe Biden said when defending his decision to withdraw American forces and leave the fight to the locals.
But Afghan defence forces have shown little appetite for that fight and, in their tens of thousands, have been laying down their arms -- only for the Taliban to immediately pick them up.
The Taliban's social media is awash with videos of Taliban fighters seizing weapons caches -- the majority supplied by Western powers.
Footage of Afghan soldiers surrendering in the northern city of Kunduz shows army vehicles loaded with heavy weapons and mounted with artillery guns safely in the hands of the insurgent rank and file.
In the western city of Farah, fighters patrolled in a car marked with an eagle swooping on a snake -- the official insignia of the country's intelligence service.
While US forces took the "sophisticated" equipment with them when they withdrew, the Taliban blitz has handed the group "vehicles, humvees, small arms and light weapons, as well as ammunition", Justine Fleischner of weapons-tracking group Conflict Armament Research, told AFP.
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Ha ha. GM product. They’ll be back to driving around in Toyota based technicals within a month.
Great.
Just great.
They started out with handmade bolt actions
and ak47s with rifleing so worn out it couldn’t hit anything you aimed it at even if it was your own foot.
And now they have the latest generation body armor , night vision and m4s.
Good job Joe stolen and general woke Miley.
Epic fail ! ( or was it?)
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Waiting for a comment from GWB. I mean he was so vociferous on the Jan 6 trespassers.
Twenty years, a trillion dollars, an ocean of American blood and these useless 7th century savages still can’t fight.
L
Team Biden owns this. Let’s make sure it sticks.
Let’s be honest, this administration is run by a bunch of Fn idiots.
But, hey! Our military-industrial complex did well.
Now, their focus is on American patriots...
Hope the taliban uses all this firepower to free the Uyghurs.
Who has the Einstein “Duh” meme?
Waiting for a comment from GWB. I mean he was so vociferous on the Jan 6 trespassers.
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He was vocal against Trump, too. Now I only hear crickets.
When will we ever learn?
First big mistake was the assumption that we're dealing with sane people here. Second big mistake was leaving them all that really cool stuff.
Trucks, machine guns and mortars, night vision equipment.
Pray for our troops.
I’m hoping we drop our embassy in Kabul.
Seems like that's about the best we can hope for right now.
Who, in their right mind, would leave that kind of hardware lying around for any malcontent to pilfer and use against you sans the GM products?
Warroom just said we left
Mortars
Artillery
And
STINGERS !!!!
Ground to freaking Air
Missileses !
And now, after a few days to give tali time to set up extortion 17 type ambushes and mine the damn runways, Biden Miley and crew are sending troops to get embassy folks out?
Incompetent
Or
Complicit ?
yup- just like the 8 years he said nothing about obama. What a POS he turned out to be....
I was with groups of Freepers and people from Protest Warrior in the streets of NYC fighting rabid left wingers on his behalf during the 2004 RNC. And he’s done nothing but spit in our face since.
“ Now, their focus is on American patriots...”
Until the clash between Marxists comes. In one corner we have the Soros led DNC.
In the other corner we have the CCP.
I was fooled by him, too.
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