Det totale nederlag i Afghanistan - Norge er en del av dette - DefenseNews

 

Bildet demonstrerer det totale nederlag som de vestlige nasjoner har gått på i Afghanistan. Det dukker stadig opp meldinger om vestlig utstyr/våpen som er etterlatt. (Red.)

Taliban vs. Iwo Jima

“When an armed group gets their hands on American-made weaponry, it’s sort of a status symbol,” Elias Yousif, deputy director at the Center for International Policy’s Security Assistance Monitor, told The Hill Thursday. “It’s a psychological win. ... Clearly, this is an indictment of the U.S. security cooperation enterprise broadly. It really should raise a lot of concerns about what is the wider enterprise that is going on every single day, whether that’s in the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia.”

Yousif added that much of the equipment would likely go unused, given the group’s dearth of training when it comes to piloting a collection of aircraft that, as of July, included 45 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and four C-130 transport planes, according to a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

“We don’t have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone, but certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters last week.

“And obviously, we don’t have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport.”