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Left Behind: Billions in U.S. Equipment for the Afghanistan Taliban to Use Against... Us
PJ Media ^ | 08/18/2021 | Victoria Taft

Posted on 08/18/2021 7:18:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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BOTTOM LINE: Instead of defeating the Taliban, we armed them.

How much is an F-15 worth, anyway? As much as $87 million USD. How about a Black Hawk helicopter? About $6 million USD.

1 posted on 08/18/2021 7:18:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Do we have an estimate of how much equipment is there? I heard Trump even mention tanks. How many of them?


2 posted on 08/18/2021 7:21:35 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: SeekAndFind

Black Hawk helicopters a Gift from Joe


3 posted on 08/18/2021 7:22:23 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SeekAndFind

The 155mm howitzers the Taliban seized will make it difficult for the Air Force to use dirt strips in the countryside to withdraw the remaining troops if the Taliban decide to close the airport in Kabul. All those brave young Marines and Soldiers that the Biden cabal deployed in the last confusing moments are now at the tender mercies and whims of the Taliban. They will put up a hell of a fight but many more brave young Americans will be needlessly killed and maimed.


4 posted on 08/18/2021 7:25:52 AM PDT by allendale
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To: butlerweave

Without spare parts and a trained ground crew, they are useless.


5 posted on 08/18/2021 7:27:03 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: SeekAndFind
Aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States!!!

ChiComjoe, Commie Harris, SecDefComPoop, and the leadership of CENTCOM command need to be held accountable.

6 posted on 08/18/2021 7:29:44 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: SeekAndFind

I think newer military Black Hawks are around $20 million.


7 posted on 08/18/2021 7:30:02 AM PDT by jjotto (Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Blue Highway

George Soros’ National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says -

We have not a clue how much military equipment we left there.

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1427696223616737284

This is treason by the way, aiding and abetting the enemy.


8 posted on 08/18/2021 7:30:04 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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I'm a big proponent of the conspiracy of incompetence over malicious conspiracy when bad things happen.

What we seeing go down in Afghanistan simply cannot be ascribed to mere incompetence.

This was a sabotage job engineered to do the utmost harm to both Afghanistan and America, while greasing the skids for the Taliban, Pakistan, Iran and China in the most beneficial way possible.

9 posted on 08/18/2021 7:31:33 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: FlyingEagle

Bkmk


10 posted on 08/18/2021 7:32:16 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: SeekAndFind; All

The destruction of this military hardware prior to leaving should have been part of the departure plan. Any dog-faced, eighteen year old, pony-soldier knows this. The boys in the P are REALLY stupid.


11 posted on 08/18/2021 7:33:00 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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https://taskandpurpose.com/news/taliban-weapons-afghanistan/


12 posted on 08/18/2021 7:33:24 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: DownInFlames

I am sure the Chinese will be happy to lend training and maintenance support. After they take apart our US military technology and replicate it for themselves.

The colossal screw up here is mind blowing.


13 posted on 08/18/2021 7:33:41 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s the way the Obozo planned it so the US could arm his fellow Muslim brethren and like with everything else, Jobama didn’t have a clue what he was doing. He just did what the Obozo cabal told him to do. Stolen elections have consequences.


14 posted on 08/18/2021 7:34:51 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden has to resign.


15 posted on 08/18/2021 7:35:12 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just guessing here, but 300,000 + soldiers each with one M16 each that will have to be turned over to the Taliban.

Probably a few hundred hundred thousand more bench stock. No telling how many millions of rounds of 5.56

All paid for by American taxpayers.

But we’re suppose to consider turning our AR’s in because there are too many drive by shootings in $hit hole cities.

Irritates the hell out of me.


16 posted on 08/18/2021 7:38:27 AM PDT by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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To: SeekAndFind

I suspect a lot of the military equipment has classified components that will also end up in Taliban hands.


17 posted on 08/18/2021 7:39:50 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: SeekAndFind

De-fund the Pentagon and the ‘intelligence’ thugs... they ‘ve had enough adventures throwing away our blood and treasure.


18 posted on 08/18/2021 7:40:00 AM PDT by GOPJ (Our incompetent military brass needs to spend less time reading Marx and more time doing their jobs.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Properly placed thermite grenades could have easily denied the Taliban anything more useful than a puddle of scrap metal.


19 posted on 08/18/2021 7:40:56 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: allendale

That’s the most unnerving thing about this debacle for me.

Let’s say that the Taliban, making us sweat a little, eventually allows all the civilians to leave. Plane by plane. Trickle out of the country.

Teasing CornPop and the US.

Then the last two C17s, filled with kids from working class families all around America, have to leave.

Nothing stopping the Taliban from opening up on them, on take off.

Then what?

Scary scenario.


20 posted on 08/18/2021 7:43:32 AM PDT by qaz123
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