Without American Support Taliban Steamrolls Afghan Army, Walks Away with Precision US Weapons and Armored Fighting Vehicles
Jun 11, 2021 17:17:00 #
Without American Support Taliban Steamrolls Afghan Army, Walks Away with Precision US Weapons and Armored Fighting Vehicles
Andrew Thornebrooke
June 10, 2021 at 4:55pm
Leo Tolstoy wrote that “war is always pernicious even when successful.”
The United States’ ongoing withdrawal from Afghanistan demonstrates the t***h of this claim.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid announced on Twitter that Taliban fighters overran government security forces with ease this week in the Maidan Wardak Province, just west of Kabul.
His posts included several pictures of booty from the conquest, which included American-made machine guns, rifles, carbines and armored vehicles.
“The enemy fled on seeing the casualties, and a large number of tanks, heavy and light weapons and ammunition fell into the hands of the Mujahideen,” he tweeted.
The Taliban also allegedly shot down a government helicopter, according to Afghan media outlet Ariana News.
News of the Taliban’s successes is merely the latest in the movement’s pernicious campaign to capitalize on the U.S. withdrawal, reassert its hegemony over Afghanistan and reinstate the government that the U.S. o*******w 20 years ago.
Alas, Afghan forces are unlikely to prevent a resurgence of the Taliban without American military presence. Despite the fact that America spent more than $2 trillion on the war effort and committed two decades of training efforts, Afghan security forces are, by all measures, a joke.
Indeed, there is something of a sad understanding on the ground that the Afghanistan government will wholly cave to the Taliban once the U.S. is gone, and a hardline interpretation of Sharia will once more become the law of the land.
“We want an Islamic government ruled by the Sharia,” said Taliban shadow mayor Haji Hekmat, according to BBC News. “We will continue our jihad until [government forces] accept our demands.”
Related: General's Dire Warning: Here's What Afghan Military Faces Without US Help
It is a difficult statement to argue with, particularly given the Taliban’s recent acquisition of American-made armament that will now be used to further the violence directed at the Afghan government.
Such is perhaps the inevitable perniciousness of war, however, and despite the coming convulsions in Afghanistan, there is little chance that increasing the number of American troops or weapons in the nation would have any meaningful impact toward fostering peace.
It is a point stated clearly by former Michigan Rep. Justin Amash in a recent tweet.
“No more airstrikes. No more war,” Amash, a libertarian, wrote. “Twenty years of military involvement in Afghanistan — the longest war in U.S. history — provides more than enough evidence that our weapons will not end this conflict, but they will add to the bloodshed and suffering.”
Indeed, Amash is onto something for once.
The violent rush to fill the power vacuum that the U.S. is leaving in Afghanistan is a necessary result of foreign interventionism and a war carried out without meaningful objectives.
If Afghanistan falls to the Taliban or, worse yet, outright collapses, let it be a lesson that all such wars must end similarly.
It is a lesson that the United States appears dead set on learning again and again and again. Maybe this time it will stick.
https://www.westernjournal.com/without-american-support-taliban-steamrolls-afghan-army-walks-away-precision-us-weapons-armored-fighting-vehicles/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=aa-newsletter&utm_campaign=can&utm_content=firefly
Stay out of Muslim countries and do not allow them to immigrate to non-Muslim countries. As long as those people stick with that ****ed up religion they will never know peace. Obama infected and infested this country with Islam which will create problems FOREVER!!
Andrew Thornebrooke
June 10, 2021 at 4:55pm
Leo Tolstoy wrote that “war is always pernicious even when successful.”
The United States’ ongoing withdrawal from Afghanistan demonstrates the t***h of this claim.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid announced on Twitter that Taliban fighters overran government security forces with ease this week in the Maidan Wardak Province, just west of Kabul.
His posts included several pictures of booty from the conquest, which included American-made machine guns, rifles, carbines and armored vehicles.
“The enemy fled on seeing the casualties, and a large number of tanks, heavy and light weapons and ammunition fell into the hands of the Mujahideen,” he tweeted.
The Taliban also allegedly shot down a government helicopter, according to Afghan media outlet Ariana News.
News of the Taliban’s successes is merely the latest in the movement’s pernicious campaign to capitalize on the U.S. withdrawal, reassert its hegemony over Afghanistan and reinstate the government that the U.S. o*******w 20 years ago.
Alas, Afghan forces are unlikely to prevent a resurgence of the Taliban without American military presence. Despite the fact that America spent more than $2 trillion on the war effort and committed two decades of training efforts, Afghan security forces are, by all measures, a joke.
Indeed, there is something of a sad understanding on the ground that the Afghanistan government will wholly cave to the Taliban once the U.S. is gone, and a hardline interpretation of Sharia will once more become the law of the land.
“We want an Islamic government ruled by the Sharia,” said Taliban shadow mayor Haji Hekmat, according to BBC News. “We will continue our jihad until [government forces] accept our demands.”
Related: General's Dire Warning: Here's What Afghan Military Faces Without US Help
It is a difficult statement to argue with, particularly given the Taliban’s recent acquisition of American-made armament that will now be used to further the violence directed at the Afghan government.
Such is perhaps the inevitable perniciousness of war, however, and despite the coming convulsions in Afghanistan, there is little chance that increasing the number of American troops or weapons in the nation would have any meaningful impact toward fostering peace.
It is a point stated clearly by former Michigan Rep. Justin Amash in a recent tweet.
“No more airstrikes. No more war,” Amash, a libertarian, wrote. “Twenty years of military involvement in Afghanistan — the longest war in U.S. history — provides more than enough evidence that our weapons will not end this conflict, but they will add to the bloodshed and suffering.”
Indeed, Amash is onto something for once.
The violent rush to fill the power vacuum that the U.S. is leaving in Afghanistan is a necessary result of foreign interventionism and a war carried out without meaningful objectives.
If Afghanistan falls to the Taliban or, worse yet, outright collapses, let it be a lesson that all such wars must end similarly.
It is a lesson that the United States appears dead set on learning again and again and again. Maybe this time it will stick.
https://www.westernjournal.com/without-american-support-taliban-steamrolls-afghan-army-walks-away-precision-us-weapons-armored-fighting-vehicles/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=aa-newsletter&utm_campaign=can&utm_content=firefly
Stay out of Muslim countries and do not allow them to immigrate to non-Muslim countries. As long as those people stick with that ****ed up religion they will never know peace. Obama infected and infested this country with Islam which will create problems FOREVER!!
Jun 11, 2021 18:03:52 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
Let the Islamists have that POS country. Let them know if they ever attack us or train the attackers we will nuke that worthless bunch of rocks.
Oldsailor65 wrote:
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Jun 11, 2021 18:10:56 #
JFlorio wrote:
Let the Islamists have that POS country. Let them know if they ever attack us or train the attackers we will nuke that worthless bunch of rocks.
But we won't nuke them. We will go through all of this all over again!
Jun 11, 2021 18:16:47 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
Oldsailor65 wrote:
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I guess trump was an i***t to demand that all US forces be withdrawn...................by May 5th.
Jun 11, 2021 18:50:20 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
lpnmajor wrote:
I guess trump was an i***t to demand that all US forces be withdrawn...................by May 5th.
No, but you are.
Jun 11, 2021 18:53:43 #
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