Taliban has some serious Hardware

[Louro]

Don't forget how much damage they inflicted with old Soviet armament.

 

[trekrok]

They were left for the local military we trained for years to use against the taliban in Afghanistan after we left.
That military folded like a stack of playing cards just like the South Vietnamese army did after we left, leaving the weapons for the enemy.

Yeah it's too bad it was unforeseeable that their military would fold in 5 seconds.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

I say you drive to DC and make a citizens arrest

I'm a little short on funds and military support.

Woody

 

[Blue Heeler]

Yeah it's too bad it was unforeseeable that their military would fold in 5 seconds.

And the people who refused to see the signs that there would be a “5 second” collapse of the Afghan military start with National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. Sullivan is the ass clown who in the Obama administration said it was a “video” that caused Americans to die in Benghazi in 2012.

 

[GnometownHero]

The whole debacle was planned for profit. Future mining and processing equipment contracts, terrorist training facilities and overseas splinter cell cost of living & equipment for Jihad.
I think the current mgmt has been clandestined running this manure spreader since before 9/11

 

[Snattlerake]

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

I was thinking a few B52s and a few B Ones.

 

[Snattlerake]

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

Or an order to blow the equipment in place before leaving. Poof, you're done.

 

[Veritas]

In 2011 one of my team leaders was told to move his trailer away from his hooch because they were doing construction on the COP. He protested saying it would be out of his control but they insisted. Some other unit immediately stole it and he was hit with a statement of charges for like $3,000.

Then they leave BILLIONS of dollars worth of equipment to our enemy and NO ONE is held accountable.

Congress also decided to play brinksmanship with passing the budget while I was there and we were told despite literally being at war we wouldn't be paid until it was passed even if it took months....welfare recipients would still be paid in full and on time. We started taking up a collection for the junior guys living paycheck to paycheck with families back home. Congress patted themselves on the backs when they came to an agreement at 11:50PM on the last day but it was too late for the banks to pay us next day, so we got half a paycheck a few days latter and caught up two weeks after that.

THIS IS HOW THE GOVERNMENT TREATS SOLDIERS and they wonder why they can't hit recruiting goals.

 

[CHenry]

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.

They should have bombed it then.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

They should have bombed it then.

I can only speculate, but I'll bet that the Biden administration offered all that equipment to the Taliban as a part of some withdrawal deal. You see, that way nothing would show on the books as some kind of payoff. Cleaver, but devious if true. It's something I wouldn't put past this administration.

Woody