Current Events > United States has essentially provided terrorists with all they need

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All of this United States army and such forces equipment has been left behind in Afghanistan for the Taliban to take control of. So Joe Biden and the USA government thought this is an actual fine thing? Not only being ran outta the country by a given date which was given to us by terrorists but also leaving all of this behind this now equipping said terrorists with top of the line military gear. They couldn't at least blow it all up? They dropped millions of bombs on Afghanistan over 20 years, yet not a single one to destroy this equipment.

Who else finds this ridiculous?

We've supplied terrorists for decades, why change now

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that will be a footnote in history compared of what's to come.
Get ready ce

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Who is this topic for

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I am fairly certain no members of the Taliban can fly a C-130.

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Politicians and the money behind them don't care, they already made money off the government contracts and taxpayer dollar. They actually love that they left it worse than they came in because they're looking at future $$$ deals

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For once, I can't fault the conspiracy theorists. We literally gifted the Taliban these vehicles.

pick4six posted...

Politicians and the money behind them don't care, they already made money off the government contracts and taxpayer dollar. They actually love that they left it worse than they came in because they're looking at future $$$ deals

Yeah, this.
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the equipment was left for the afghan military forces. not our fault they gave up in record time

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So we should have blown up the equipment that the government we had supposedly been training for 20 years was supposed to use to defend the country?

I was told we were helping Afghanistan to develop and stand on their own. Now we should have stripped them bare as we left?

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008Zulu posted...

I am fairly certain no members of the Taliban can fly a C-130.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmhGrJJjI7E

KnightofShikari posted...

the equipment was left for the afghan military forces. not our fault they gave up in record time

Yeah, I was really surprised that they just rolled over and gave up. Makes me think they wanted the Taliban in charge all along.

Purple_Cheetah posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmhGrJJjI7E

HELLO BOYS

I'M BAAAAAAAAACK!!!

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What are you talking about? Even if it was left behind for the Afghanistan army forces to defend the country with, that cat was outta the bag long before we left the country. We had a whole lot of time to destroy it all, could even precision strike most of it after leaving the country. It's very sad to even think a government like ours the United States would even think to leave behind all of this for terrorists

The damage the terrorists will cause is negligible compared to the damage to the global economy that one ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal for a few days did.

EricDraven59 posted...

What are you talking about? Even if it was left behind for the Afghanistan army forces to defend the country with, that cat was outta the bag long before we left the country. We had a whole lot of time to destroy it all, could even precision strike most of it after leaving the country. It's very sad to even think a government like ours the United States would even think to leave behind all of this for terrorists

please provide a source that we knew that a precision strike would have only destroyed the equipment and not caused a loss of life to our servicemembers or afghan allies

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3000 humvees? Jesus we were throwing money away weren't we? We could have used that money for universal Healthcare.

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@KnightofShikari so the USA government now grew a conscious and won't drop any bombs if they know it will kill innocent people? Maybe they should have grown that 20 years ago before I'm sure many thousands of citizens were killed.

Plus if all our forces already left and we precision strike the equipment then there isn't even any of our forces left to worry about being hurt

EricDraven59 posted...

@KnightofShikari so the USA government now grew a conscious and won't drop any bombs if they know it will kill innocent people? Maybe they should have grown that 20 years ago before I'm sure many thousands of citizens were killed.

Plus if all our forces already left and we precision strike the equipment then there isn't even any of our forces left to worry about being hurt

i guess we should not care about killing our own military? is that what you're saying? you'd rather blow our own troops up rather than give them a shitty humvee?

after we pulled out the taliban would have already been moving the equipment around anyways. it's not like they would claim them and not move them around, making it harder for a precision strike

no source yet

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Don't they always do this?

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ZEROWOLF posted...

3000 humvees? Jesus we were throwing money away weren't we? We could have used that money for universal Healthcare.

It's the principle. You burn money before you let it fall into the hands of the poor.

Healthcare refusal's the same thing. The government would throw away 12,000 humvees before it would ensure everyone could have healthcare.

@KnightofShikari maybe you don't understand then what the word precision means then? And as I said, our forces aren't even there anymore

So we can have a war in the future.

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EricDraven59 posted...

@KnightofShikari maybe you don't understand then what the word precision means then? And as I said, our forces aren't even there anymore

so you know for a fact that the taliban aren't hiding the equipment or using civilian shields so we shouldn't care about causalities?

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Werent these things that were given to the Afgan military to help defend themselves once we were done holding their hand?


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You mean the deal your orange cheeto god negociated past year?

Just think what all that money could have done here. Provided medical care, provided jobs and fair wages, provided homeless people with a place to stay

This military spending is ruining us.

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For any person saying the Taliban don't have any idea how to use the air crafts listed. Well that may be true, though I am not sure all are idiots in that sense. Seeing as how some of their leaders are military. Also even if the Taliban couldn't use the air crafts, what about all these Afghanistan army members? You know, the ones who gave up the country, and bowed to the Taliban? Pretty sure any number of them can be forced to fly the air craft, and maybe even some not needing to be forced, seeing as how a lot were clapping as the taliban passed by them

With an excess of three thousand vehicles, they can tinker with them until they figure out how to reproduce them.

The next religious holiday, maybe we should gift them a couple of nuclear bombs. They might want those two -- just to complete the collection.

pick4six posted...

Politicians and the money behind them don't care, they already made money off the government contracts and taxpayer dollar. They actually love that they left it worse than they came in because they're looking at future $$$ deals

we sent billions over to that country over the last 20 years, all that shit on the list is chump change in comparison.

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EricDraven59 posted...

For any person saying the Taliban don't have any idea how to use the air crafts listed. Well that may be true, though I am not sure all are idiots in that sense. Seeing as how some of their leaders are military. Also even if the Taliban couldn't use the air crafts, what about all these Afghanistan army members? You know, the ones who gave up the country, and bowed to the Taliban? Pretty sure any number of them can be forced to fly the air craft, and maybe even some not needing to be forced, seeing as how a lot were clapping as the taliban passed by them

considering that the afghans could barely support the equipment themselves with us there then yeah i doubt the taliban would be able to figure it out. and who's to say the crowds were actually supporting the taliban and not just appeasing them so they weren't killed for not clapping enough?

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Of course a lot of them were clapping because they already gave up and were now cowards and needed to please their new Masters and avoid being murdered by them all. But what's the real difference between a clapping out of joy or a clapping out of fear? Both of these versions can now be controlled by the Taliban to do whatever bidding they want. As the joy Afghanistan army members will Glady do to, or the scared Afghanistan army members will unwillingly do it or be killed for disobeying. Lose - lose

_HayleyWilliams posted...

So we should have blown up the equipment that the government we had supposedly been training for 20 years was supposed to use to defend the country?

I was told we were helping Afghanistan to develop and stand on their own. Now we should have stripped them bare as we left?

We should have actually told them we were leaving.

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Unless the stuff gets stolen from the Taliban, this really isn't a big deal.

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thanks joebama

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And now we have to spend more money to defend ourselves! Better bump up that military budget

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they armed the terrorists so then later on they can play the "see the country needed us after all, look how those terrys are steamrolling." card.

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Everything left was left in unusable condition

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It's also been explained multiple times by people since this happened that American military equipment requires insane amount of maintenance training, maintenance hours, and spare parts. The Taliban will get an extremely bare minimum amount of usage of this stuff before it becomes scrap.

Also, the stuff left at Kabul airport was left in an unusable state because that was the last place American forces left.

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sabrestorm posted...

Everything left was left in unusable condition

They can still be fixed up Mad Max style...

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TerraSeeker posted...

We should have actually told them we were leaving.

Would that have prevented them from running away and abandoning all the training and equipment the US provided?

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Pandamonic posted...

Don't they always do this?

Yes, its cheaper and even profitable to leave used hardware in the war zone.

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A_QuietPlace462 posted...

They can still be fixed up Mad Max style...

i can tell you know nothing about real modifications, stuff in movies dont happen in real life

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Everything will rust before the Taliban figure out where the On button is.

this has been happening for years why are people just now caring about this

Don't know why some of you keep saying all the equipment was disabled. I already replied to this saying how do we know just how was disabled? I highly doubtful they took the time to disable every single aircraft listed. Plus even if by some miracle they did disable every single aircraft, they didn't disable all those guns and rocket launchers and grenades and Humvees.

Doom_Art posted...

Who is this topic for

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