Posted on 09/22/2021 7:58:26 AM PDT by Heartlander
I'm curious why Trump didn't start repossessing the equipment from the Afghan army and either returning it to the U.S. or destroying it in place last year. That's a lot of stuff and Trump had committed to being out by early May.
It appears that Trump's plan was to take it all back regardless and either destroy it or return it to the U.S. I don't think the Afghan army or the Afghan government entered into the equation.
And those that did exist were just trigger pressers. The afghan Army had no logistics, intelligence, procurement, maintenance support.
“...It was part of the plan - everyone knows the ‘Afghan Army’ could not function without US support...”
But by allowing them to do it when the US had spent so much cash getting them independent puts the blame on the Afghans, not the US. The entire reason we were over there was to chase Al Queda out and get the Afghans independent.
Four presidents over two decades have found themselves mired in Afghanistan, wondering when they might get out. Biden decided to make the move after Trump to get the credit and he may well face the political consequences each of his predecessors managed to sidestep.
President George W. Bush first sent troops to overthrow the Taliban then in power after they had harbored al-Qaida prior to the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Thereafter, his attention turned to invading Iraq and a larger struggle there. But he kept enough troops in Afghanistan to keep the lid on and move toward building an indigenous army and democracy (while denying it was “nation building”).
Elected in 2008, Barack Obama surged the U.S. fighting force to more than 90,000 in his first term, then drew it down aggressively after winning his second. Biden, his vice president, was opposed to the build-up and favored the drawdown.
The President has constitutional power not only to retaliate against any person, organization, or state suspected of involvement in terrorist attacks on the United States, but also against foreign states suspected of harboring or supporting such organizations.
Trump was the first to want out. But when Biden changed the time, the decisions of property, and rules to save face and who to protect, he opened himself up for controversy by taking time from March to September to do nothing and tried to make it work when it wasn’t going to. And that’s why he should be getting hammered and not for the expense of the left weapons. Cost for that is unimportant. A human life not getting priority to be retrieved, especially American citizens, has no total value. And that’s the real cost of his Fup.
wy69
The Afghan Air Force didn't have any AH-64s of any kind. Older model UH-1s and UH-60s plus a bunch of Russian MIL helicopters.
I think the AH-64 were at Bagram and were left behind then, at least that’s what the article seems to say.
Maybe Trump should focus his energy on building up new media platforms rather than giving clicks and views to his old enemies.
Blue Thunder.🤔
Boom.
So much for the Washington establishment line that Biden has about the same policies as Trump had.
There is no comparison. From Afghanistan to COVID and all the rest.
That was in the primary.
Around September 8th, he finally gave in and said he would
vote for Trump. It wasn’t an endorsement.
This after literally calling him every name in the book and
accusing him of being a Liberal non-stop for over a year.
He Glenn Beck and Ted Cruse lost me in 2016, and they’ll
never get me back.
With Hillary Clinton the known adversary against Trump, they
continued to trash Trump.
Others can explain that away in their own minds if they
want. I’m not going to bother.
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