Posted on 08/20/2022 7:56:13 AM PDT by george76
Liberal legal scholar Jonathan Turley has called out Democrat President Joe Biden for leaving billions of dollars worth of military equipment for the Taliban during the withdrawal from Afghanistan last year.
As Slay News previously reported, the Department of Defense Inspector General’s report released Thursday revealed that the U.S. military left $7 billion in equipment and weapons behind.
Despite having months to prepare for the exit, the Biden administration “took no steps to remove or destroy” our military equipment and “elected to leave this arsenal intact to the Taliban.”
Turley said: “Defense Department Inspector General has released its long-awaited report on what the Biden Administration left behind in Afghanistan.
“It is an unbelievable list of equipment left to one of the most violent groups in the world with a history of supporting terrorist organizations.
“I opposed the long war in Afghanistan, so I was not among those critical of Trump or Biden in pushing to leave the conflict.
“However, no one has ever explained why the Biden Administration left this equipment in Afghanistan as opposed to removing it or destroying it.
“While the collapse of the Afghan government was rapid in the final days, the government had many months to prepare for the scheduled withdrawal.
“Yet, it took no steps to remove or destroy this equipment.
“Instead, it elected to leave this arsenal intact to the Taliban.
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The ground vehicle inventory alone was worth about $4.12 billion.
“In addition, the U.S. military lost $923.3 million worth of military aircraft and $294.6 million in aircraft munitions.
“The Taliban was instantly made one of the best-equipped militaries in the world due to this windfall gift by the Biden Administration.
“While the report says that ‘some’ of the aircraft were ‘demilitarized and rendered inoperable during the evacuation,’ most of this equipment was left read-to-use, including 316,260 small arms, including sniper rifles, machine guns, and grenade launchers, were left behind, amounting to $511.8 million.
“I do not understand how this clear and unimaginable blunder has gone unaddressed.
“No one was fired,” the law professor noted.
“There is not even any evidence of discipline of any kind.
“The Biden Administration decided to give the Taliban billions in weapons rather than destroy them.
“Yet, there seems little more than a shrug and a yawn from Congress and the press,” he said.
It is not incompetence. It is deliberate sabotage. The CCP wants to rule the World so the United States has to be destroyed. Once you understand this all of this apparent madness suddenly starts to make sense.
Leave the addled old man alone, he has no idea whats happening.
Leaving all that military hardware for the Taliban just screams Barack Obama (or an Obama toad still infesting the WH), the guy who said the muslim call to prayer was the most beautiful sound in the world.
Because people who want to destroy the US are in charge.
It’s what they do.
That was so yesterday.
“However, no one has ever explained why the Biden Administration left this equipment in Afghanistan as opposed to removing it or destroying it.”
He is supposed to be a smart analyst. The equipment was a ransom payment to keep the Taliban from going on a a kill spree to everyone we left behind. The rats knew how that would look. it amounted to a multi-billion dollar payoff.
Obama armed ISIS in precisely the same way.
Maybe Demented Joe had nothing to do with it,,,,,Ron Klain may have been the Chief loser.
“Dude, that was like, over a year ago.”
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Yup!
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Yep! It is amazing to me how many people still think it is incompetence. Joe is not in charge. This is BO’s 3rd term.
Well, leaving and nuking the equipment would be even more pathetic. Then US would have to flat out admit it was abandoning our side, but they (we) needed to claim they (we) thought the Afghans were capable of taking over the job.
Billions of dollars worth of weaponry that could have better served Ukraine and its blackmarket selling......
Don’t worry, I’m sure we will see some of that equipment back in the U.S. in the near future. With the huge arsenal gift to terrorists in Afghanistan, the U.S. has achieved the distinction of the world’s largest supplier of arms to our enemies.
I’m sure the gifts we’re providing to Ukraine will only reinforce more ideologues and U.S. haters….not sarcasm!
? I don’t get it. What is the story here?
Don't forget about the weapons funneled through Libya and the tax free cash gift to Iran!!
And well known military expert.
Afghanistan was always going to fall to the Taliban or ISIS or some variation there of once the decision was made to leave. It didn't have to be as messy as it was, and certainly didn't need to be as ineptly handled as it was, but it was going to happen regardless.
Yes. Obama and Muslim Jarrett.
And the neocon Zeepers try to tell us that the Ukraine War will be won by Biden. LMFAO.
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