Posted on 09/12/2021 5:35:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
For worse, and worse alone, resident Joe Biden will go down in history as the architect of Every Weapon Left Behind.
While scrambling wildly out of Afghanistan, Biden bequeathed to America’s enemies the Arsenal of Anti-Democracy. Atop seizing Afghanistan in a veritable coup d’état, the Taliban inherited a staggering array of war supplies. The grimy, dusty terrorist scum who hosted Osama bin Laden have become a formidable regional power. And they have Joe Biden to thank.
Biden’s generosity blessed the Taliban with a cornucopia of weapons. This bonanza is jaw-dropping for its assortment and abundance. These armaments were shipped from the U.S. to Afghanistan starting in fall 2001. According to estimates in The Times( UK), the BBC, and TheU.S. Sun, this haul includes:
U.S. military combat uniformsLightweight helmets, designed to ease communication
Bulletproof, carbon/graphite body armor
Four C-130 transport planes
33 UH 60 Blackhawk helicopters
634 M117 Armored Security Vehicles
8,000 large trucks
16,035 night-vision goggles
22,174 Humvees
25,327 grenade launchers
42,000 pickup trucks and SUVs
64,363 machine guns
126,295 pistols, including .40 caliber Glocks
162,043 radios
358,530 assault rifles
And much more.
“We found a federal audit that detailed up to $200 million worth of drones that had disappeared,” said transparency advocate Adam Andrzejewski, president ofOpen The Books, on whose advisory board I serve. (Ironically, the “pro-transparency” Biden Administration suddenly scrubbed from the Internets everal reports on this topic.) Andrzejewski added: “We’ve made the Taliban into a major U.S. arms dealer for the next decade.”
One British Army officer summed this up with disturbing candor: “The Taliban have got a plan, high morale, proper equipment, and they’re winning.”
Potentially much worse, the Taliban surely lacks the good taste to keep these deadly goods to themselves. Americans should prepare to thank Biden when American arms land in the hands of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian Republican Guard, MS-13, or any number of very, very bad guys.
These villains include al-Qaeda, whose killers are salivating over Biden’s virtual hand delivery of this mega-armory. The United Nations Security Council, hardly the Vatican of U.S. peace through strength, warned on June 1 of the enduring links between the Taliban and al-Qaeda, the vicious Islamofascist terrorists behind the September 11, 2001, attacks — 20 years ago tomorrow.
Page 12 of theTwelfth report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team states: “... the Taliban and Al-Qaida remain closely aligned and show no indication of breaking ties. Member States report no material change to this relationship, which has grown deeper as a consequence of personal bonds of marriage and shared partnership in struggle, now cemented through second generational ties.”
Chillingly, this official document warns of “a longer-term Al-Qaida core strategy of strategic patience for a period of time before it would seek to plan attacks against international targets again.”
Team Biden surely saw this U.N. Security Council assessment. And yet, as the Taliban advanced, with al-Qaeda lurking in the wings, Joe Biden and his minions neither shipped these weapons home nor destroyed them, perhaps with flamethrowers and steamrollers, so they could not be deployed against America and her friends.
These frightful developments have enraged security experts, lawmakers, and veterans.
“The massive arsenal and technologically advanced equipment the Biden Administration left for the Taliban means a terrorist group has NATO-member weaponry,” former Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell tells me. “It’s infuriating because it means US taxpayer-funded arms will be used to kill US citizens and American allies.”
Rep. Jim Banks (R -Indiana) shares Grenell’s disgust.
“One thing many don’t realize yet is that we didn’t just hand the Taliban hundreds of thousands of advanced weapons, ground vehicles, and aircraft. We also handed them the biometric data of nearly every Afghan who helped us during the last 20 years,” says Banks, chairman of theU.S.HouseRepublican Study Committee. The Taliban now also possesses some 7,000 biometric scanners that can scrutinize things like the irises of former interpreters who assisted America’s mission.
As a U.S. Navy Reserve Supply Corps officer who served in Afghanistan, Banks knows his weapons.“So we handed the Taliban the blueprint and tools to carry out a war crime against our allies. When Americans turn on the news and hear stories about the Taliban going door to door and executing families in the street, those are likely family members of individuals who served us as translators, etc. Biden has facilitated these murders by letting this data fall into the hands of this bloodthirsty, medieval group.”
“Will the Taliban use their new arsenal against Americans?” Banks wonders. “The Americans whom Biden left stranded in Afghanistan are at extreme risk. I have no doubt the Taliban is using our equipment to monitor and threaten them. And perhaps, God forbid, do worse.”
Before joining the Commentariat, Fox News contributor RobSmith was a Specialist in the U.S. Army’s Fourth Infantry Division. His military duty has left him gravely concerned about this fiasco.
“One of the most shocking and infuriating things about the mess Biden has made in Afghanistan is the reported billions of dollars in US grade military equipment that is now in the hands of the Taliban,” Smith says. “We’re talking assault rifles, tanks, machine guns. As a combat veteran who served in Iraq, one of the few sources of comfort you get on the ground is knowing that the enemy isn’t as well-equipped as you. Now, thanks to Biden’s blunder, if America is ever to re-enter Afghanistan in a combat situation against the Taliban, we will be fighting an enemy that has our own equipment. This is a travesty and something that is not discussed nearly as much as it should be.”
The German word for this wholistic catastrophe is Waffengeschenk. Joe Biden’s weapons gift to the Taliban sounds no better in English.
It was the plan. It was not an accident.
Bloody Biden.
Harming America is his primary directive. He’s the perfect foil for his handlers, whether Soros or Beijing. He can disguise his malicious behavior with the mantle of senility and incompetence, but the forces that are commanding him are neither. Remember when Trump was accused of being an agent of a hostile foreign power? When the Democrats were saying “Trump “, they were thinking about their guy Biden. They were subliminally telling us that the idea was not beyond the realm of possibility, and they were right.
Some people do not have enough adversity in their live, got to go out and invent some.
Well, now there is plenty of adversity to go around, so help yourselves, folks. Not to the adversity, but start to lift yourselves up by the bootstraps.
Exactly. Just a short week or so after Preezy Ubama’s birthday.
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Whether plan or accident, heads should roll for this. This is an OUTRAGE. This asshat wants to disarm the US populace but is content to arm an enemy state with our best military grade weaponry. Just the drones they left alone is reason for concern. Picture a scow off our coast launching them into a city. These clowns who cannot even protect a military base from intrusion from drunk drivers would have their hands full.
Lucky for Biden his butt boys in the MSM care more about democrats winning than about the United States surviving... Press toadies will ignore this story - ignore the truth.
“It was the plan. It was not an accident.”
Of course. Leaving heavy armament is one thing but uniforms, helmets, body armor and personal assigned weapons is another.
I watched “Patton” last night and mourned there was no general like him!
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