Taliban has some serious Hardware

[OK Corgi Rancher]

A few A-10s could've really rained on that parade.

 

[RickN]

The helos were all Russian made MI-8/17s. Probably one we collected and then gave them, but the Taliban had a few before we invaded and I think other Arab countries have given them more.

 

[Ready_fire_aim]

Taliban ha serious hardware huh? I bet their goats/wives are impressed

 

[CanadianRiverRat]

A few A-10s could've really rained on that parade.

A few AC-130J's would be my preference....when they rain, it really pours!

 

[KurtM]

Ever think we left them out old stuff so we could get new stuff. I bet all our defense companies were tickled.....red?

 

[trekrok]

I can't imagine watching this if I'd lost family fighting over there. Makes me want to puke as it is.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

No need for congressional approval.
I honestly think the congress should make police actions illegal by law unless approved by a 2/3 majority of congress, but that is a pipe dream and will never happen.
The weapons manufacturing community funnels too many perks to congressional members for that to ever come to a vote.

All I am saying is that since Congress never passed a declaration of war, they are holding themselves immune from any liability, and as pointed out, such calls for treason are not implicated without that declaration of war.

I am on board with making these "police actions" illegal. If one is to go to war, make it official. These proxy skirmishes are actually wars. We were fully involved in Vietnam and Korea with troops and material. If those were not wars, I think the definition of war has been altered, That said, it is what it is regardless of the moniker.

Woody

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

And another couple of things: The bastardization of the word "war" has been further confounded and diminished in its meaning by the so-called war on poverty and the war on terrorism. The words poverty and terrorism are not nations or a people. If it can't be fought with arms, it is not a war.

Woody

 

[Shoot Summ]

Typical, we leave hardware every time, too expensive to transport it back and try to deal with it, easier just to buy new stuff. US Government has no accountability for spending.

 

[GnometownHero]

Just one sortie for a pair of B2 could have repaired that mistake