Bagram Airfield looted as US forces slip
away in the night from Afghan base
New York Post,
by
Samuel Chamberlain
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/6/2021 6:34:11 AM
American forces left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield over the weekend without notifying the new commander from the Kabul government — giving looters precious time to swipe anything that was not bolted down, shocking photos show.The US announced Friday that it had vacated Bagram as part of a final withdrawal the Pentagon says will be completed by the end of August. It is Afghanistan’s largest airfield and was the hub of America’s 20-year campaign to remove the Taliban from government, track down Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda cohorts, and keep the country’s fragile elected government in place amid a Taliban resurgence.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 7/6/2021 6:57:45 AM (No. 837082)
That whole Afghanistan thing would have been resolved long ago, and at a fraction of the cost by simply paying each of those Taliban fighters 1/2 million to stay home and live in luxury.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/6/2021 7:14:42 AM (No. 837098)
Slip away? How about slinked away.......
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
hershey 7/6/2021 7:27:26 AM (No. 837107)
And thanks to Bidet I'll bet NONE of the infrastructure/vehicles/arms were destroyed...so sad what has become of the 'leaders' in this country....
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My thoughts exactly, #3. We should have destroyed anything left we weren't taking with us. I imagine the Taliban got quite a haul of vehicles and weapons.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JL80863 7/6/2021 7:31:16 AM (No. 837113)
This is a cover story for Afghan force insiders who had first pick.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
philsner 7/6/2021 7:46:03 AM (No. 837126)
Who knew this would happen?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/6/2021 7:59:07 AM (No. 837143)
If we had looked at history and the service of Britain and Russia in Afghanistan we would never have been there.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/6/2021 8:00:43 AM (No. 837145)
"We" are deliberately managing the optics to portray an American defeat. We scheduled the final bug out for 9/11/21 to represent the fulfilment of the 2001 victory over the great Satan.
Now rather than leaving in an orderly manner we are leaving significant assets behind as if we were being overrun opposed to leaving as a result of our own volition, and policy decision.
This is all theater. The reason, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. The radical communist left sees a useful tool in radical Islam. The venn diagram intersection of agreement on destroying the US as founded outweighs throwing in with those who relegate women to property status and toss gay people off of buildings and even hate dogs.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 7/6/2021 8:56:36 AM (No. 837210)
"Shocking "? Who didn't see this coming a mile away?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 7/6/2021 9:11:29 AM (No. 837235)
Who's surprised? This happens all the time in democrat run cities, buzzards picking on the corpse is not unusual. Fraud Joe Biden wanted to leave a gift for the Taliban fighters.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
seamusm 7/6/2021 9:22:25 AM (No. 837254)
Same happened when we exited Vietnam.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/6/2021 9:30:20 AM (No. 837267)
Who cares, it's only MONEY! /S
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/6/2021 9:33:30 AM (No. 837275)
Just like we did in Saigon so many years ago and the South Vietnamese paid for our mistake with thousands of lives. If you are going to start a war and then sneak out in the middle of the night when things get tough, don't start the war. Now is when the bloodbath begins for all the Afghans who trusted us. I hope Putin and Xi don't hurt themselves laughing.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 7/6/2021 9:37:38 AM (No. 837285)
What do you mean the Kabul government wasn't told? I've never been to Afghanistan, and I knew the U.S. troops were leaving. What were we supposed to do? Knock on the Kabul government door and say we're leaving now. Seems to me the government of Kabul should have been standing by for the departure of U.S. troops at a moments notice. How difficult could it be to see thousands of troops loading up equipment and seeing all the activity at the base without knowing something was going on. If the Kabul government is this inept, then as usual, we've spent too much time, money, and blood trying to turn people and a government into responsible caretakers of their own country. If they don't care or have the will to do it on their own, then why should we care?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mean Gene 7/6/2021 9:55:01 AM (No. 837315)
We "trained" the so-called Afghani army for what? 20 years?
And they slinked away too.
What a predictable mess.
I just hope the few Afghani's who really wanted to see improvements in their lives can find a new life elsewhere.
I wonder how many of those 18,000 Afghani translators we threw to the wolves?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
NYBruin 7/6/2021 11:35:29 AM (No. 837409)
#15 - I wonder how many were working for the Taliban all along.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/6/2021 12:14:09 PM (No. 837456)
Portland, Seattle, Bagram.... Walgreens, Target.... I knew those riots evoked the 3rd world.
When I was in the service, there were instructions to destroy the item(s) in case they were left behind, lest an enemy use them.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
coldoc 7/6/2021 12:27:49 PM (No. 837475)
I guess all those us army social justice classes didnt work. Note to milly at the pentagon.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 7/6/2021 1:26:25 PM (No. 837550)
an earlier article showed heaps of junk where we had removed anything we wanted and then pretty much destroyed the remainder to where it was only good for salvage, not real use
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Foghorn 7/6/2021 3:39:22 PM (No. 837671)
There is absolutely no way that the base was abandoned 'in the still of the night' without the Afghanistan not knowing what was going on. The Afghans on the base knew what was happening and so did the Taliban. You can't BS an old sailor that knows the Afghan intel agencies didn't know what was happening.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mifla 7/7/2021 4:46:02 AM (No. 838143)
Didn't see that coming. s/o
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