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Afghanistan

Afghan troops filmed laying down arms

2021-07-07

[DailyMail, Where America Gets Its News] The Afghan army is collapsing across the country, with videos posted by the Taliban showing troops laying down their US-made weapons and handing over the keys to their Humvee armoured cars

The US left Bagram Airfield last week - its fortress in the country for nearly 20 years - by slipping away in the night without telling the base's new Afghan commander who discovered they had gone the next morning

However, General Austin Scott Miller, commander of US and Nato troops in Afghanistan, said he was shocked by how quickly the Afghan National Army had surrendered to the resurgent jihadists

'I don't like leaving friends in need,' he told ABC on Monday. 'We should be concerned. The loss of terrain and the rapidity of that loss of terrain has to be concerning. You look at the security situation, it's not good'

More than a thousand Afghan National Army soldiers fled into Tajikistan from the northern province of Badkhshan following clashes with the resurgent jihadists on Sunday

Tajikistan said that the Afghans were allowed to enter on the principle of 'good neighbourliness' but called up 20,000 reservists to bolster its border guard and prevent further flooding of the frontier

Posted by:Fred

#8 The whole mission was a cock up from the git go. Once bin Laden escaped across the border to Pakistan we should have left that hell hole and all of the people who live there to their own devices. Many of us understood that even then and the comparison to Vietnam was disturbing. How much blood and treasure were wasted and for what? The military/industrial complex got to test some of their new toys and make big bucks in the process. I still harbor the suspicion that opium had a lot to do with it. Now we get all the fentanyl we can do from China and Mexico so we no longer need Afghanistan. Let the Turks, the Chinese and the Russians have it. They deserve it and the Afghans deserve them.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-07-07 12:07

#7 Had a generation and a half to inspire and train, General.

That being said, I believe the US has had about the worst historical political leadership I can come up with at the moment. All that capital, blown by hanging LTs because a rumor a Koran got wet. Playing Mother May I? with the Pakis. Bullshit.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-07-07 11:47

#6 BTW General you keep pushing CRT on your own troops, they'll be doing the same thing when a real insurrection arises. I'm sure you and your brethren will be shocked too.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-07-07 09:34

#5 Disappointed maybe, but shocked?
Whatever you do, don't tell him about the gambling in back.

Posted by: SteveS 2021-07-07 09:07

#4 What is not surprising is that the Afghan army is shit and a lot of them support the Taliban anyway. The rest just join the most powerful side so they don't get killed.

Why this general fuckstick doesn't get that is beyond me.

Posted by: DarthVader 2021-07-07 09:03

#3 /\ What a telling admission. Perhaps he should drop his retirement paperwork.

Posted by: Besoeker 2021-07-07 08:36

#2 General Austin Scott Miller, commander of US and Nato troops in Afghanistan, said he was shocked by how quickly the Afghan National Army had surrendered to the resurgent jihadists

Following the model of ISIS's overrun in Iraq. Yeah, no lessons learned there General.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-07-07 08:33

#1 ...Changing sides as required is an old and honored tradition there - things don't go your way, then you kiss the requisite turbans, maybe hand over a couple of goats, and boom, Muhammad's your uncle. All the new rulers ask is that you behave.

This should have been clear to anyone with the ability to look things up in a library, yet the College of Cardinals - and their idiot civilian masters -that runs the US military has once again proved that they have forgotten nothing and remembered nothing.

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2021-07-07 06:20

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