Photos Afghan Armed Forces (Prior to 2021)

[Jake84]

 

[NebrHogger]

Teleprompter with extra large lettering and short, simple words at the ready.

I can't bring myself to watch the dotard.

 

[Jake84]

Not watching it either because it’s a bit too early even here to nod off.

 

[BCNTM]

Teleprompter with extra large lettering and short, simple words at the ready.

I can't bring myself to watch the dotard.

He has blamed 'Trump' and the turncoat Afghans

Biden could not even turn up on time

 

[Ivan le Fou]

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Blames Bush and Obama.
Blames Trump.
Blames the Afghan people.

 

[BCNTM]

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Blames Bush and Obama.
Blames Trump.
Blames the Afghan people.

And he shot off like a bullet - not taking any questions

What a knob

 

[Ivan le Fou]

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oye pendejo

 

[Jake84]

^I quit trusting politicians only some years after I quit believing that Santa Claus was delivering gifts through the chimney.

 

[Fluff]

^I quit trusting politicians only some years after I quit believing that Santa Claus was delivering gifts through the chimney.

Father Christmas still does.

 

[bfc1001]

And he shot off like a bullet - not taking any questions

What a knob

Credit where credits due , it was his strongest speech to date . Some home truths mixed with the usual delusional neo liberal drivel . A bit light on detail though , like the current situation in Kabul . Definitely sending 6 thousand troops though I'm not sure how their going to get in and if it will help . Looks chaos down there .

 

[Newtonk]

But he did say the buck stops with him, after blaming the list of players mentioned above... About the only thing to take from his speech was that he was not going to pass this on to another President.

 

[Fluff]

Shirley a withdrawal of ground troops, but leaving full drone and high flying bomber support would have been a bit wiser….

 

[Ivan le Fou]

Credit where credits due , it was his strongest speech to date . Some home truths mixed with the usual delusional neo liberal drivel . A bit light on detail though , like the current situation in Kabul . Definitely sending 6 thousand troops though I'm not sure how their going to get in and if it will help . Looks chaos down there .

It does take balls to dump the blame on everybody else.

He said so before though: he would take no responsibility.


That's peak leadership 101 right there.

 

[Fluff]

But he did say the buck stops with him, after blaming the list of players mentioned above... About the only thing to take from his speech was that he was not going to pass this on to another President.

So joe is the most intelligent occupant of the White House in 20 years….

 

[bfc1001]

It does take balls to dump the blame on everybody else.

He said so before though: he would take no responsibility.


That's peak leadership 101 right there.

Irrelevant really considering the situation unfolding . He can blame who he wants , he will be measured by what happens over the coming days .

 

[Fluff]

Irrelevant really considering the situation unfolding . He can blame who he wants , he will be measured by what happens over the coming days .

And he has to live with it….

which given his age etc, doesn’t have quite the same weight, as when your dad says it to you…..

 

[Chazman]

What a catastrophe.

The US should have left Afghanistan the day after Bin Laden was killed. But the Global Elites loved the war. It was providing them billions at the expense of the US taxpayer and the blood of their children.

The question isn't about leaving Afghanistan, the question is how this was done. Complete and utter incompetence by Biden and his administration. The woke SecDef Austin, Chairman JCS Gen Milley and the intelligence agencies have spent their energy attacking the American people, attacking the American military, attacking Americans who didn't vote the way their Globalist masters wanted them to - that it seems they had no time to do their actual jobs. Disgraceful. They should all tender their resignations with immediate effect.

There are reports that at least 10,000 American contractors are still trapped in Afghanistan. The USMC, 82nd Airborne and Special Operations are now going in to get them. The sons and daughters of the "Deplorables" the Global Elites hate so much. They'll do their job. It will be messy. Pity they won't have a base to operate from, since Biden/Austin/Milley ordered US forces to evacuate them weeks ago.

Even the corrupt media stooges haven't quite figured out how to spin this to protect Biden, et, al.

There is palpable anger in the United States - meaning American people.

 

[Ivan le Fou]

Their is palpable anger in the United States - meaning American people.

Careful, the DHS guidelines now are: whoever disagree with the gov is to be treated as a potential domestic terrorist.

 

[Mike1976]

In related news, corruption is obviously the main cause for the utter failure of the ANA. I'm just reading a news report where they quote Peter Neumann of London's King's College. For years, many Afghan government soldiers only existed on paper with their salaries going to corrupt commanders and other officials. "When soldiers learn that superior officers are getting rich by selling gear and fuel to the enemy, the moral of your troops will collapse. ... The idea of a continuous success in building a nation has been an illusion for 20 years."

Afghanistan as such really doesn't exist. Rather it is a patchwork of tribes that for most of recorded history have been at each other's throats when they weren't busy fighting foreigners. When a unit made up primarily of members of one tribe was sent to operate in another tribe's territory not much would be undertaken because why die for a tribe that isn't your own? The nation of Afghanistan is meaningless to them.

I asked myself why wasn't the logistics of the Afghan forces directly administered by the Western Powers seeking to build up the army because of this obvious corruption. After all, an army functions on beans and bullets, and without those, you have only a disgruntled mob.
The answer is, that corruption begets corruption, and the malfeasance didn't stop with the Afghans.

Because this was all about the legitimacy of the Afghan government I would guess. So leftist politicians wouldn't be seen as being imperials imposing their will on non-whites. Also a complete lack of understanding about local culture and customs, or complete disinterest in reality in favour of political posturing to the electorate.

Military aircraft belonging to the Netherlands or that will evacuate Dutch personnel/citizens cant take off due to civilians on landing strip.

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Not entirely. The aircraft at that point can't land because priority is being given to bringing in reinforcements.

Shirley a withdrawal of ground troops, but leaving full drone and high flying bomber support would have been a bit wiser….

Yes it would have been. What gave coalition forces the edge was firepower which the Afghans didn't have in sufficient numbers, didn't know how to operate and/or couldn't maintain. This is pretty much a carbon copy of Vietnam where the US provided the ARVN with plenty of weapon systems, but after a while most of it fell into disrepair and the army folded. The moment the coalition left fire support vanished and logistics and comms broke down. A lot of blame is put on leadership leaving the country and abandoning their troops, but I think that at least the political leadership stayed in country longer than I had expected them to and seeing as how quickly the army was folding it's hard to imagine what more they could have done, or how much longer they could have stayed without signing their own death sentence.

There are reports that at least 10,000 American contractors are still trapped in Afghanistan. The USMC, 82nd Airborne and Special Operation are now going in to get them. The sons and daughters of the "Deplorables" the Global Elites hate so much. They'll do their job. It will be messy. Pity they won't have a base to operate from, since Biden/Austin/Milley ordered US forces to evacuate them weeks ago.

The first bit is securing several sites to operate from and enabling them to run ops. Given that this is the world's largest military this shouldn't be much of a problem in the logistical sense, but I thought the same about evacuating a couple thousand foreigner diplomats and translators so yeah ...

Incompetence throughout the Pentagon and WH. But such brave inclusiveness all throughout the forces and such kindly worded tweets

 

[Mardonius]

What a catastrophe.

The US should have left Afghanistan the day after Bin Laden was killed. But the Global Elites loved the war. It was providing them billions at the expense of the US taxpayer and the blood of their children.

The question isn't about leaving Afghanistan, the question is how this was done. Complete and utter incompetence by Biden and his administration. The woke SecDef Austin, Chairman JCS Gen Milley and the intelligence agencies have spent their energy attacking the American people, attacking the American military, attacking Americans who didn't vote the way their Globalist masters wanted them to - that it seems they had no time to do their actual jobs. Disgraceful. They should all tender their resignations with immediate effect.

There are reports that at least 10,000 American contractors are still trapped in Afghanistan. The USMC, 82nd Airborne and Special Operation are now going in to get them. The sons and daughters of the "Deplorables" the Global Elites hate so much. They'll do their job. It will be messy. Pity they won't have a base to operate from, since Biden/Austin/Milley ordered US forces to evacuate them weeks ago.

Even the corrupt media stooges haven't quite figured out how to spin this to protect Biden, et, al.

Their is palpable anger in the United States - meaning American people.

Incompetence is synonym with nearly every intervention the US has been involved in. From Vietnam, Nicaragua, Iraq to Afghanistan. In stead of blaming wokeness for all of this, you should ask yourself: why does the US always end up with the most corrupt and incompetent side in these kind of conflicts? Why does the US never truly understands the country and people with whom it fights? Why does it always abruptly ends support for its allies and leaves them at their own fate? How come it never manages to effectively translate battlefield gains into concrete political successes? Etc.

There is something rotten in US political-military culture.