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At least three things have been going on in Afghanistan for a decade that most of the media hasn’t covered, and most of Congress has ignored. If they had paid attention, Biden’s shameful debacle would have been easier to understand.
At least three things have been going on in Afghanistan for a decade that most of the media hasn’t covered, and most of Congress has ignored. If they had paid attention, Biden’s shameful debacle would have been easier to understand.
#1 The US govt has been working with the Taliban for years. The hydro electric dam we built with your tax money years ago… the Taliban got 1/3 of that energy. The Taliban was in control of a lot of territory and although they were pushed from power they were never annihilated.
#2 Most of those aircraft and vehicles and weapons weren’t left behind by our military - they were left behind by the Afghan Security Forces. We gave them that equipment, using your tax dollars to pay the military industrial complex. It was a waste even in the best scenario.
#3 a lot of the money (your money) we sent to Afghanistan to pay their soldiers went to soldiers that didn’t exist. It was diverted and stolen for many years.
If folks had listened to @SIGARHQ, they would have known these things and much more. The debacle might not have happened. Here’s a list of the reports they published.
sigar.mil/AllReports/
sigar.mil/AllReports/
Even knowing this, and having drawn attention to it for almost a decade, I’m sick to my stomach at what has occurred during the withdrawal.
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