Posted on 09/04/2021 5:00:01 PM PDT by McGruff
Amrullah Saleh, 48, is the former vice president of Afghanistan, who escaped Kabul as the Taliban advanced to join Ahmad Massoud and the National Resistance Front in the Panjshir Valley.
The remote, 70 mile long valley, bordered by high mountains, is a geographical stronghold and the last province in Afghanistan to hold out against the Taliban. After peace negotiations failed, battle has now been joined with each side claiming territorial gains and heavy casualties in the past 48 hours.
In a courageous and moving dispatch from the frontline, Saleh - whose leader, President Ashraf Ghani, fled Kabul for the UAE - reveals his anger at Afghanistan's betrayal by America but urges the West not to abandon his beloved nation.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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Her Tweets have developed an ominous tone today.
Dang...
There’s the person who should have been Afghanistan’s president.
A brave honorable man.
The Biden Regime wants the Taliban to win and are probably supplying intelligence and surveillance in addition to the equipment we have already given them.
I don’t doubt it. To me, this was all preplanned and the top military brass was in on it.
Amrullah Saleh is the guy whose Intel. People tracked bin Laden to Abottabad, Pakistan in 2007 but no one would listen ...
Sorry pal. If Biden stabbed you in the back, what the hell did your military do to you? Didn’t even put up a fight. You could have had the highest technical equiped military in the world and they left everything for the Talaban. Only a matter of time before they climb that mountain....or fly in and bomb the sh!t out of it!
Back when Clinton was president his guys decided to abandon the elder Shah Ahmed Massood and the Northern Alliance in favor of Pakistan’s favorite, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who was thought to be easier to buy and control. Pakistan has always wanted Afghanistan and they opposed General Massood because Massood was a nationalist, was friendly to India, and not a fan of Pakistan ...Massoud’s father was a loyalist police chief under the Afghan king. This coming September 9 is the 20th anniversary of the assassination of the elder Shah Ahmed Massoud, the assassination which preceded the 9/11 attacks on the US.
What do you suppose the Afghan army was fighting with before we abandoned all that equipment and weapons at Bagram?
They didn’t need the highest tech equipment...that is a liability when your soldiers are farmers and herdsmen. The highest tech equipment wasnt given to them in their best interest, it was bought and transferred to them in order to pay off political donors who happen to be invested in the manufacture and sales of such equipment.
Hekmatyar of course, like all of Clintons favorites, later bit us on the ass.
I have to give Ghani the benefit of the doubt. Had he stayed he would definitely have been executed for all the world to see. If he took cash then I’ll, for now, assume he will help fund and direct anti-Taliban forces. If Biden hates him, I like him.
From what I was reading at the time, there is more to the story. I believe it was in April Biden called for the withdrawal and pulled all support from the Afghan Army, including pay. The Kabul government took over but was paying late and sometimes not al all. Morale was at rock bottom. US air support dried up, advisors were gone. When the Taliban approached each city or province they called for a meeting with the military commander and offered a big payoff if they would walk away. The commanders took the money and told the troop to lay down their arms. Our intelligence and all NATO countries knew full well this was going to happen because that is what the Taliban has done in the past. Plus, the Taliban had fighters who has infiltrated each city beforehand - a fifth column. This is warfare we in the US don’t understand, but the people in that part of the world sure do.
We propped up Afghanistan for twenty years. It’s high time they choose to fight their own fight if they want freedom over the Taliban.
kinda like Obama when he grew ISIS in Syria with weapons from Libya.
“assume he will help fund and direct anti-Taliban forces”
I wouldn’t make that assumption.
$$! Read that they were very well paid but often disappeared between paydays. Their hearts and souls were elsewhere.
No, they’d never have competed w/ the Taliban. I’ve seen videos of our trainers years ago saying that 75 to 80% were drugged up, it was like teaching a child, you had to tell them over and over, they’d show up late, no helmit or gun (probably given to the Taliban for some heroin.
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