"What do you need that information for?"
Posted on 08/15/2021 7:29:09 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Washington (AFP) - The collapse of the Afghan army that allowed Taliban fighters to take control of Kabul cast a stark light on errors committed over 20 years by the Pentagon as it spent billions of dollars in Afghanistan.
- The wrong equipment -
Washington spent $83 billion in its effort to create a modern army mirroring its own. In practical terms, that meant huge dependence on air support and a high-tech communications network in a country where only 30 percent of the population can count on a reliable electricity supply.
"So they knew how bad the Afghan military was."
His office's latest report to Congress, filed last week, said that "advanced weapons systems, vehicles and logistics used by Western militaries were beyond the capabilities of the largely illiterate and uneducated Afghan force."
- Exaggerated numbers -
For months, Pentagon officials have insisted on what they said was the numerical advantage held by the Afghan forces -- supposedly with 300,000 men in the army and the police -- over the Taliban, estimated to number some 70,000.
- Half-hearted promises -
American officials have repeatedly vowed that they would continue to support the Afghan army after August 31 -- the date announced for completing the withdrawal of US troops -- but they have never explained how this would be done logistically.
- Unpaid and unfed -
Worse, the salaries of the Afghan army had been paid for years by the Pentagon. But from the moment the American army announced its planned withdrawal in April, responsibility for those payments fell on the Kabul government.
Numerous Afghan soldiers have complained on social media that they not only have not been paid in months, in many instances their units were no longer receiving food or supplies -- not even ammunition.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Another day begins in Kabul, a sea of people rushing into the Kabul airport terminal. #AFG pic.twitter.com/UekpGJ2MWd— Jawad Sukhanyar (@JawadSukhanyar) August 16, 2021
No mistake about it.
The US military is now under foreign control.
The pentagon says everything is fine no problem in Kabul
It’s the fault of the Afghans.
They need to get to a point where >50% eschew Islam.
Otherwise, they remain doomed.
To confirm Fox reporting -
We asked Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki for comment about Afghanistan.
Here the actual automated response: "I will be out of the office from August 15th-August 22nd." pic.twitter.com/PCi8gDqhwL— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) August 16, 2021
The Pashtuns in Afghanistan remained loyal to the Taliban. They never really supported the U.S. backed government.
The Woke people in charge at the Pentagon were motivated by hate and followed their passions.
They wanted to be involved in teaching Critical Race theory and bolstering Antifa. Afghanistan was not their interest.
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The ignominy of having the French chide us over military decisions…
Why would anyone support the US these days?
These figures of $83 and $88 billion that you have seen are incorrect. I have been quoting $88 billion the last couple of days and I have been wrong. I was watching War Room earlier and Peter Navarro gave a figure of $64 billion, just for 2017, when he was a Trump Advisor. The figure is way north $100 billion. That’s to build a modern Afghan Army when 90% of Afghanis are illiterate. It don’t work.
Biden is hidin’.
He’s gone into the Witless Protection Program.
“To confirm Fox reporting -
We asked Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki for comment about Afghanistan.
Here the actual automated response: “I will be out of the office from August 15th-August 22nd.” pic.twitter.com/PCi8gDqhwL— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) August 16, 2021“
She is furiously trying to message Baghdad Bob on LinkedIn for pointers and tips on landing her next position.
No reason. Our enemies know all they have to do is to wait us out.
Islam is a counter-hegemonic force. The fault lies with the administration that ignored that and instituted Operation Enduring Freedom while at the same time declaring Islam to be a religion of peace.
I voted for that idiotic administration because they were the lessor of two evils. Screw Democrats and Repuplicans, they are all evil, no more fooling myself anymore by the lessor of two evil meme.
Somewhat surprised the taliwhackers didn’t immediately disable the airport. They didn’t have to actually take complete control of it, they just needed to heavily engage the troops there to the point that nothing can leave or get out without getting all shot to crap. Keep it surrounded till nature takes its course.
They got all that state-of-the art U.S. weaponry at their disposal to make it happen too.
Shooting those with immunity letters
https://www.jurist.org/news/2021/08/afghanistan-dispatches-afghan-law-student-on-the-fall-of-kabul-and-taliban-victory/
20 years of America throwing American youths lives away for what?
20 years of American wealth thrown away for what?
For folks that refuse to fight for their own safety and lives?F-em./
Personally I do not give a damn about the folks in Afghanistan and why? cause they refuse to fight for themselves.
F-em.
The political blood is chumming up the the water, go out and go "full shark" and get some of your own.
It is even more fun than beating up the RINOs on this forum.
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