Biden surrenders to the Taliban

[jbecker]

“The US spent billions supplying the Afghan military with the tools to defeat the Taliban, but the rapid capitulation of the armed forces means that weaponry is now fuelling the insurgents’ astonishing battlefield successes.
“We provided our Afghan partners with all the tools — let me emphasise: all the tools,” US President Joe Biden said when defending his decision to withdraw American forces and leave the fight to the locals.
But Afghan defence forces have shown little appetite for that fight and, in their tens of thousands, have been laying down their arms — only for the Taliban to immediately pick them up.
The Taliban’s social media is awash with videos of Taliban fighters seizing weapons caches — the majority supplied by Western powers.”

New today: The Taliban are now in Kabul.

There are rumors of them seizing US bombers and other aircraft, and assembling an airforce.

Some reports say that the USAF is bombing their own planes to prevent their capture by the Taliban.

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2021/08/14/taliban-picks-up-billions-worth-of-us-weapons-left-for-afghan-military/

[Liz]

Yes, unbelievable. No-one could see this coming??? They had to see it, and yet are allowing it to happen anyway, at the expense of not only billions of dollars in free weapons for enemies, but also the lives of those these terrorists will now take.

[Jeanne]

Many people saw it coming. Afghanistan is a sinkhole for foreign armies, and the treasure that supplies them, to disappear into. Add to the country’s history the ridiculous notion that US troops were not there to destroy their way to victory and, of course, this outcome was inevitable. “Never again?” Not when the lesson is never learned and then compounded by idiots. What a terrible waste and what a horrific thing to do to the Afghan girls and women and any of the people that wanted to escape the Taliban.