How did this happen?

Date: 9/2/2021

Some one needs to point out how Afghanistan affects locally. As you mentioned there have been local casualties. This has to be one of the worse retreats in history.

By one count the Taliban got:

• 2,000 Armored Vehicles Including Humvees and MRAP’s
• 75,989 Total Vehicles: FMTV, M35, Ford Rangers, Ford F350, Ford Vans, Toyota Pickups, Armored Security Vehicles etc
• 45 UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopters
• 50 MD530G Scout Attack Choppers
• ScanEagle Military Drones
• 30 Military Version Cessnas
• 4 C-130’s
• 29 Brazilian made A•-29 Super Tocano Ground Attack Aircraft

208+ Aircraft Total

• At least 600,000+ Small arms M16, M249 SAWs, M24 Sniper Systems, 50 Calibers, 1,394 M203 Grenade Launchers, M134 Mini Gun, 20mm Gatling Guns and Ammunition
• 61,000 M203 Rounds
• 20,040 Grenades
• Howitzers
• Mortars +1,000’s of Rounds
• 162,000 pieces of Encrypted Military Comunications Gear
• 16,000+ Night Vision Goggles
• Newest Technology Night Vision Scopes
• Thermal Scopes and Thermal Mono Goggles
• 10,000 2.75 inch Air to Ground Rockets
• Recconaissance Equipment (ISR)
• Laser Aiming Units
• Explosives Ordnance C- 4, Semtex, Detonators, Shaped Charges, Thermite, Incendiaries, AP/API/APIT
• 2,520 Bombs
• Administration Encrypted Cell Phones and Laptops all operational
• Pallets with Millions of Dollars in US Currency
• Millions of Rounds of Ammunition including but not limited to 20,150,600 rounds of 7.62mm, 9,000,000 rounds of 50.caliber
• Large Stockpile of Plate Carriers and Body Armor
• US Military HIIDE, for Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment Biometrics
• Lots of Heavy Equipment Including Bull Dozers, Backhoes, Dump Trucks, Excavators

The American casualties are not over. This captured equipment will generate more American casualties.   It may be used to threaten the Saudi Oil fields.   Biden has ended any plan to make us independent of Arabian oil.

Passports and ID’s have been confiscated by the Taliban. These documents can be used by terrorists to enter the USA.   What about the “loyal Afghans”. If there are so many of them why did they lose? There are also reports of so- called loyal Afghans working as translators who were setting up Americans soldiers for road side bombs.   Due to the chaos they will also be allowed into the USA.

So how did this happen? It happened because our state’s Congressional delegation which supported Biden just went along with him and did not ask questions. They do not run on national issues. They say, “I brought money into the district.” They do not take the blame for the coffins. Local Democrats went along with the national Democrats. Every last one of them shares some of the blame.

Marky appears on the front page. He did not say anything about Afghanistan. No one pressed him.  I suppose money will be spent to replace the hardware for the next debacle.

Robert Joseph Underwood
Springfield