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Afghanistan
Afghan looters ransack Bagram Air Base and hawk basketballs, stereo speakers, laptops, and bicycle helmets after US troops bugged out in the dead of night
2021-07-06
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Afghan locals started hawking contraband after looters ransacked Bagram Air Base over the weekend

  • Bicycles, helmet, laptop computers, and pieces of scrap were sold after the looting over the weekend

  • Massive base includes 50-bed hospital and giant hangar size tents filled with supplies such as furniture

  • Americans also left a fleet of SUVs without the keys to start them as well as hundreds of armored vehicles

  • Since 2001, Bagram Air Base north of Kabul served as a linchpin for the US war in Afghanistan

  • At its peak in 2012, Bagram saw more than 100,000 U.S. and NATO troops pass through sprawling compound

  • Last week, US soldiers left the base as the 20-year-long war in Afghanistan comes to an end

  • The soldiers left without telling local officials, meaning its gates were left unsecured

  • On Friday morning, locals moved in under the cover of darkness and looted several buildings

  • US-backed Afghan forces gained control of the base, but it remains a shell of its former self

  • Photos taken on Friday show the base eerily quiet and almost abandoned

  • There are now fears it will be taken over by the Taliban who are gaining increasing control across Afghanistan

And courtesy of Hupanter Angiter6497:
Posted by:Skidmark

#15  Spiked the guns and sugared the tanks, I hope.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-07-06 14:34  

#14  Did they remember to leave the money on the nightstand?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-07-06 13:08  

#13  Smallpox blankets are old school. Nowadays, we use bats and Chinamen.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-07-06 13:01  

#12  What ever happened to smallpox blankets?
Posted by: M. Murcek    2021-07-06 12:56  

#11  The term or failed concept I should have included in #4 was.... "nation building."
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-07-06 11:43  

#10  should have done scorched earth.
Posted by: Warthog   2021-07-06 11:24  

#9  So let's foking learn something from all of this and not try it again somewhere else.


Cam Ranh Bay
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-07-06 11:13  

#8  ...they took the bar..
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-07-06 11:01  

#7  Ok, so turning it into 'Reston Town Center' didn't work. So let's foking learn something from all of this and not try it again somewhere else.

The cultural and civil evolution of these lovely people lags at least 1000 years behind the West, possibly longer. It appears to be a 'self-paced' process. Come back and check on them in another 500-750 years.

We weren't there to civilize them. We showed up to pound the Taliban into the ground in a way acceptable under the rules written by lawyers who now rule the military in the same way that they dominate the civilian world. The issue isn't that we were there - it's that lawyers are running our wars.

We've also brainwashed ourselves into believing that atrocity doesn't work. Or course it does. If it did not, how did Alexander build an empire that lasted centuries? How did Muhammad build a religion that has lasted 1300 years, using Alexander's rules of engagement? Has it occurred to anyone that the elimination of 10% and 5% of Germany's and Japan's populations during WWII had anything to do with their relative quiescence afterwards?
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2021-07-06 10:55  

#6  I wondered what the Afghan version of the helicopter bug out in Vietnam would be. This is it.
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-07-06 08:43  

#5  There is and always has been only one reason to fight. I don't care if you just slung your bronze shield across your back to make your 5th attempt on the walls of Troy or you're climbing into a boxing ring in San Francisco harbor centuries later...

VICTORY. The devastating kind. The absolute kind. If you're not in it for that kind of win, do everybody a favor and stay the Hell home.
Posted by: Cesare   2021-07-06 08:14  

#4  Ok, so turning it into 'Reston Town Center' didn't work. So let's foking learn something from all of this and not try it again somewhere else.

The cultural and civil evolution of these lovely people lags at least 1000 years behind the West, possibly longer. It appears to be a 'self-paced' process. Come back and check on them in another 500-750 years.


Posted by: Besoeker   2021-07-06 08:06  

#3  sounds like Detroit
Posted by: Retard Strength   2021-07-06 08:01  

#2  US left Bagram Air Base in dead of night, didn't tell new Afghan commander
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-07-06 07:24  

#1  No need giving out their departure schedule, information that the Taliban would end up with in 5 minutes.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-07-06 00:30  

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