Posted on 08/18/2021 12:57:54 PM PDT by Eddie01
Numerous videos have surfaced online that show the extent of the amount of weapons that Taliban terrorists have seized in Afghanistan following Democrat President Joe Biden’s debacle in the country.
The New York Times reported that the Taliban have seized “hundreds of Humvees and pickup trucks they captured along with countless caches of weapons and ammunition,” which they have shown off on social media.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan admitted during Tuesday’s press briefing that “a fair amount” of the billions of dollars in weaponry that the U.S. provided to Afghanistan had “fallen into the hands of the Taliban.”
“And obviously, we don’t have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport,” he added.
The Taliban was able to make rapid gains throughout the country because the U.S. military, under Biden’s leadership, pulled air support out of the country, which left the Afghan security forces unable to operate.
The Wall Street Journal explained:
The Afghan army fighting alongside American troops was molded to match the way the Americans operate. The U.S. military, the world’s most advanced, relies heavily on combining ground operations with air power, using aircraft to resupply outposts, strike targets, ferry the wounded, and collect reconnaissance and intelligence.
In the wake of President Biden’s withdrawal decision, the U.S. pulled its air support, intelligence and contractors servicing Afghanistan’s planes and helicopters. That meant the Afghan military simply couldn’t operate anymore. The same happened with another failed American effort, the South Vietnamese army in the 1970s, said retired Lt. Gen. Daniel Bolger, who commanded the U.S.-led coalition’s mission to train Afghan forces in 2011-2013.
“There is always a tendency to use the model you know, which is your own model,” Bolger said. “When you build an army like that, and it’s meant to be a partner with a sophisticated force like the Americans, you can’t pull the Americans out all of a sudden, because then they lose the day-to-day assistance that they need.”
Biden blamed the Afghan security forces for their loss, claiming that they were “not willing to fight for themselves,” despite the fact that they have lost nearly 70,000 soldiers fighting the Taliban and other terrorists in the country.
The AFP highlighted analysis from a terrorist expert on what the seizing of weapons means for the Taliban:
The weapons will not only help the Taliban’s march on Kabul but “strengthen its authority” in the cities it has captured, said Raffaello Pantucci, senior fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies. With US troops all but gone, the Taliban now find themselves flush with American-supplied tools, without having to raise a single penny.
“It is incredibly serious. It is clearly going to be a massive boon to them,” he said. Some of that weaponry is now being brazenly paraded ahead of the US troops’ 9/11 withdrawal deadline by insurgents who have maintained ties with Al Qaeda, the group behind the 2001 terror attacks.
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Well, who could have possibly foreseen such a thing happening? Sarcasm
The Taliban took it all from the Afghan army when they melted away. What was the U.S. supposed to do? Take all the weapons back when we left?
Why are we not bombing the hell out of those depots and bases. This should have been scorched earth the entire week before!
So I’m a terrorist if I want to own the same gun they just gave to Abu bin Halitosis for free. Yeah, that makes sense.
Good question.
Biden arms the Taliban terrorists pulls out troops and tells the 10,000 Americans get to the air port if you can No actions from the D.C. good old boy club for his impeachment.
Everybody feel safe now?.
Is that snarky or what, this is serious stuff, why is he acting like a drunken college student loser. We should demand better than this unserious nincompoop.
Well Bill, you have to BUY the weapons with your own money - the Taliban get the weapons for free!
I wonder where the Taliban ranks amongst the most heavily armed militaries in the world now?
Wait till one of those anti tank rockets gets used against innocent Americans.
I’m sure the Biden admin will issue a strongly worded letter in protest.
Agree.
When they have concrete bunker penetrating bombs to get at Saddam Hussein and mother of all bomb shock and awe bombs to look good on TV, then why not bomb the abandoned weaponry?
Maybe it wasn’t gentlemanly. Terribly impolite. Just let the Taliban have them to kill people.
True.
But they isolated the real problem:
Afghanistan needs gun control. And Millions Gun Free Zone signs airlifted there.
Send David Hogg over there immediately. He can also counsel the left behind Americans on “sheltering in place” while foreign aides are rescued in transport planes. On his knees with his trembling fingers interlinked over his neck under a desk is one of his poses.
On another site someone remarked that this has been the WORST pull out since Hunter and the striper. Too funny. You are welcome.
If the idiots in charge had put dead man switches in when they discussed it years ago…
Wrong: He’ll pay them not to use them.
i was thinking the same thing.
The weaponry came baqsheesh and can be used by the taliban when they attack the US, without having to make an investment. It has the same effect as if Biden joined the Taliban.
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