Posted on 08/27/2021 8:39:18 PM PDT by Daffynition
A government watchdog group says the U.S. military is leaving behind 75,000 vehicles, 600,000 weapons and 208 aircraft in Afghanistan as forces evacuate the country after a 20-year war.
We’ve made the Taliban into a major U.S. arms dealer for the next decade,” said Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of Open the Books. “They now control 75,000 military vehicles. This is about 50,000 tactical vehicles, 20,000 Humvees they control about 1,000 mine-resistant vehicles, and even about 150 armored personnel carriers.”
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“We built them a pretty amazing war chest and now all of it is in the hands of the Taliban,” said Andrzejewski. “We know that last month, as late as July, seven new helicopters were being delivered in the capital city of Kabul.”
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“We found a Federal Audit that detailed up to $200 million worth of drones that had disappeared,” Andrzejewski said. “We don’t know where 600,000 weapons are within the country.”
The left-behind equipment and weapons are worth billions.
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The Hill reported that “between 2003 and 2016, the United States transferred 75,898 vehicles, 599,690 weapons, 162,643 pieces of communications equipment, 208 aircraft, and 16,191 pieces of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment to Afghan forces, according to a 2017 Government Accountability Office report. From 2017 to 2019, the United States also gave Afghan forces 7,035 machine guns, 4,702 Humvees, 20,040 hand grenades, 2,520 bombs and 1,394 grenade launchers, among other equipment, according to a report last year from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR).”
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday that the equipment is lost to the Taliban, “and obviously, we don’t have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport.”
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We need to always remind them the next time they come after our weapons.
THEY ARMED A SWOREN ENEMY TO THE UNITED STATES.
AND BROUGHT THE MILIANTS TO OUR LAND
LEFT OURS TO DIE
NEVER FORGET
May history some how manage to record the truth.
A very different, and likely largely accurate, account of the whole situation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsqADqjRuOU
Xiden has no remorse, just apathy. The families of the Benghazi disaster said that he was stone cold when they met him at Andrew’s Air Force Base. One family member said that Xiden even made an inappropriate joke.
So where are they parked?
“ Best armed terrorists on the planet.”
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These are more weapons than the Taliban could ever use. But, the Taliban is broke and needs cash. So, we will see much of these weapons show up on the international weapons market. Sold to whatever bad actors that has the money.
Annnnd the dems won’t care
All of it was turned over to the Afghan army over the past ten years or more. It was supposed to be used by them to defend against the Taliban. I don't imagine anyone thought that they would fold as quickly as they did and leave it all to the Taliban.
I think it was Slim Pickens that rode it down.
You are right. I always got those two mixed up. You can’t fight in here, this is the war room. 😀
Those old Talibans are gone. This is the new, better Taliban 2.0
Democrats burn money so they can get more to burn
You’re right, that can be nothing but intentional
:)
What if....a Military junta!
Should we go all South American?....Third world?
[Wondering out loud.]
The chicom backed nuclear Talebans, yep. So much better. Makes not much difference to 5 y old boys there, tho...
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