Posted on 08/31/2021 2:46:44 AM PDT by blueplum
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban triumphantly marched into Kabul’s international airport on Tuesday, hours after the final U.S. troop withdrawal that ended America’s longest war. Standing on the tarmac, Taliban leaders pledged to secure the country, quickly reopen the airport and grant amnesty to former opponents.
In a show of control, turbaned Taliban leaders were flanked by the insurgents’ elite Badri unit as they walked across the tarmac. The commandos in camouflage uniforms proudly posed for photos....
...Vehicles carrying the Taliban raced back and forth along the Hamid Karzai International Airport’s sole runway on the military side of the airfield. Before dawn broke, heavily armed Taliban fighters walked through hangars, passing some of the seven CH-46 helicopters the State Department used in its evacuations before rendering them unusable.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid addressed the gathered members of the Badri unit. “I hope you be very cautious in dealing with the nation,” he said. “Our nation has suffered war and invasion and the people do not have more tolerance.”...
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no more US dollars for you, tally man. You broke it, you fix it.
And they HUNG a man from OUR HELICOPTER!!!
Finally, one little piece of military intelligence from an otherwise historically inept operation. No chithooks for you, TallyBahn.
Why would they not declare victory?
Even if this ends up as a Pyrric victory, one ending in their ruin, they get to brag for right now.
The three morons who wrote this crap seem giddy with admiration for these satanic demons.
They probably are. They aren’t Orange Man, so it’s all good.
Sometimes you have to give the devil his due. This barely literate rabble achieved their goal against the behemoth US simply by waiting us out and outlasting us. They never had a chance in a head-to-head war and were smart enough to know our public relations culture wouldn't have allowed it anyway.
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