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But you gotta know.. in time all that will have been dig up and someone is going to try to salvage some. It depends on how well you destroyed those things. A complete weapon could be put together out of parts.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
. Why anyone thought we'd be different or special is beyond me. We should have learned by what the place did to the Soviets.
Originally posted by TritonTaranis
Heres why....
The US has alot of hardware in Afghanistan being the main ISAF contributor
And the reason why the US is dismantling rather than giving or selling it to the Afghan forces and pulling out of Afghanistan is simple
The US and other ISAF countries in Afghanistan got sold out and stabbed in the back by the Afghan Government
As you all know alot of resources have been discovered in Afghanistan over the past few years and are to be mined very soon by countrys like China & Russia and other countries that otherwise refuse to play a part in ISAF operation dealing with security, and lastly the fact most of those countrys a no friends of western countries.
The Afghanistan government give alot of contracts to China to mine nearly a trillion dollars worth of Lithium, and other resources
Why are western country going to supply the security for the massive mining operations for China to make billions and making it easy for China to mine?, it would be easier to pull out, bring our troops home, and safeguard our countries from home and let China supply the security for there massive investments and watch the Taliban take back over the country to make it very difficult to mine a single batteries worth or Lithium
Bottom line is it was a royal piss take and shortly after the Afghanistan government announced who would get the contract to mine there now safe country, ISAF announced it would PULL OUT 2014 and then Osama Bin Laden was found and killed
Nobody see that one then,
Its absolutely NOTHING to do with the US & Co not being able to fight the Taliban, the Taliban haven't engaged ISAF forces in fire fights for years unless they have been ambushed or forced back out of a village, because they simply get hammered to hard in every exchange
ISAF troops are then ordered to pull back out of those villages to which the Taliban go back in to at night and regroup, after the troops once again pull back as commanded, this is how the operation in Afghanistan has gone down for over 10 years and its no secret with ISAF troops left scratching there heads at there confusing tactics
These tactics tell you one thing, and one thing only.. that ISAF commanders are not pushing for an all out victory in Afghanistan, there simply prolonging an all out victory and playing with the Taliban for a reason, and that reason "was" to keep ISAF forces there to supply stability and protection for the mining contracts they expected to get handed to them from the government they installed
How comes nobody has wondered why the ISAF zones and Taliban controlled zones haven't changed over 12yrs because its certainly not because they couldn't capture them, its because they didn't want to, they needed a threat to exist for them to over sea the huge mining operations, because as soon as the troops pull out the Taliban with come back out of hiding and attack mining operations
But anyway
I guess that is China's job now
Its no wonder the US wants to befriend the Taliban now as they will need to supply them with arms to fight China soonedit on 23-6-2013 by TritonTaranis because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
They aren't giving it to the Afghan national army because the cold bastards know what is about to happen when the US has the bulk of and then all forces out of the nation. Karzai's Government will fall, and nothing much will stop that. The Taliban won by attrition just like Vietnam and it'll end that way.
They aren't leaving anything they don't basically want to hand to the Taliban or have become theirs within 6-9 months of our being gone. Makes sense to me on that point.
Afghanistan is where Empires go to die. It's how the place was described before the U.S. laid eyes on it. It's how it'll be described going forward. Why anyone thought we'd be different or special is beyond me. We should have learned by what the place did to the Soviets.
Originally posted by DoubleDNH
Does anyone else have a better option?
Originally posted by crazyewok
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
. Why anyone thought we'd be different or special is beyond me. We should have learned by what the place did to the Soviets.
And the UK really should have known better as we went in there 3 times and ended up leaving with our tail between our legs.
So why a 4th time was needed I dont know!
Accept our democracy, but not our equipment.
Originally posted by bartholomeo
The biggest loss here is not the 7 billion worth of equipment, bu the fact that the best military in the world could not defeat guys with long beards, rags, sandals.
Originally posted by crazyewok
Originally posted by DoubleDNH
Does anyone else have a better option?
Dont go to these places in the first place!