Afghan watchdog concludes billions in weapons U.S. left behind form ‘core’ of Taliban military
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, in response to the 9/11 attacks a month earlier. The U.S. presence in Afghanistan then continued under four presidents.
Just like we wrote up
-biden
You misspelled Obama
Or Soros
Or bilderberg
But wait.....Afghanistan is now stable and is no longer attacking it's neighbors. Taliban good? I'm so confused........
The only good thing the Taliban did was halt the drug production coming out of Afghanistan.
Yes Taliban good, they are back full force to raping little boys and depriving girls of an education.
Too bad we were not smart enough to put disabling chips in most of the equipment.
"nothing is as it seems'
The base was far more important than the equipment. We will build more and better equipment. And modern military equipment runs on parts. That is why the democrats always quietly cut the parts budget. I remember flying with parts that had been reconditioned many times. That is why I had dozens and dozens of emergencies. Sometimes barely getting the jet back to the runway.
China thanks Biden for all the equipment that they were about to reverse engineer and copy.
Good use of taxpayer monies.
It wasn't just weapons and vehicles. It was whole developed bases and training compounds, computers and files, tracking and surveillance hardware, and printed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on everything from hand held and shoulder fired weapons systems to artillery, aircraft, vehicles and vehicle maintenance, passport printing, and human biometrics hardware including facial recognition, fingerprint, palm print, foot print, and eye scanners, too. Detailed files printed in multiple languages for these shitheads because we were training "Afghanis" who spoke or were fluent in multiple different languages other than English, Farsi, or Arabic. Oh, and there were a lot of foreign partners that went back over to the Taliban/AQ to avoid persecution and death sentences. The Taliban gave clemency to anyone willing to side with them that were knowledgeable in our tactics and systems to help train them in our war fighting ways.
Estimated total cost of everything comes close to or exceeds $10 Billion USD. This cost also includes the hardware and software other partner forces like Britain, France, and Germany left behind, too.
We also left more than enough cash in multiple currencies behind. So much, in fact, that the Taliban/AQ leaders are still giving stuff away to various other Islamist groups that send fighters to Afghanistan for training.
This report also fails to mention the weekly payments to the Taliban/AQ in the form of "aid," that so far Congress has yet to end. These people in the State Dept and Congress who believe that money isn't going straight to Hamza bin Laden and the Taliban are out and out idiots. If that money isn't going straight to them, how else could they afford to be giving away this stuff we left behind. They're literally giving it away to ISIS, IS-KP, all Shaban, and any other group who asks for assistance.
It's been years now, so I'd estimate the total cost of this major blunder to be at or exceeding $100B...and climbing every week.
Everyone involved should be charged and tried for capital offenses. It is time the gallows, firing squad, electric chair, or lethal injection were the penalty for betraying the Constitution and the public trust.
The Constitution is NOT optional, and is Absolute in the limits of delegated government power / authority. Anything else is usurped, or stolen.
If we want true justice then we need to not only see the criminals involved in stealing our tax dollars charged and tried for capital offense's, but we also need to force government to stop overstepping the Constitution to begin with, and stop stealing the fruits of our labors to spend or give away to others against our will.