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Old 08-18-22, 03:41 PM   #736
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U.S. military left over $7 billion of military equipment to Taliban, IG report confirms

The inventory left behind in Afghanistan included more than $4 billion worth of armored vehicles

https://www.foxnews.com/world/u-s-mi...eport-confirms
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Hubris. Illusions. Megalomania.

We're talking about Afghanistan not you Skybird.
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Old 08-18-22, 04:43 PM   #738
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And yes, it was forseeable. Some people, me inclcuded, warned of defeat as the outcome. Nothing is surprising in the the way it ended, nothing.

Yes I totally agree
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Old 08-18-22, 04:59 PM   #739
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U.S. military left over $7 billion of military equipment to Taliban, IG report confirms

The inventory left behind in Afghanistan included more than $4 billion worth of armored vehicles

https://www.foxnews.com/world/u-s-mi...eport-confirms
Maybe Trump shouldn't have negotiated a date for withdrawal. Sort of gives the game away.
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Maybe Trump shouldn't have negotiated a date for withdrawal. Sort of gives the game away.
Brandon has never had a problem canceling or changing anything that Trump had ordered, so he could definitely have postponed the withdrawal if he had wanted to. Instead he completely ignored the problem, did nothing at all for several months and as a result didn't start preparations until it was far too late. As a result thousands of our people and the Afghani friends who helped us were left behind in mortal danger and the Taliban now possesses several billion dollars of our latest military hardware. None of it had to happen and it wouldn't have under Trump.
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