Folks, US military commanders assured us that they blew up their munitions, equipment, aircraft (aircraft? who blows up their own aircraft?) and military posts before leaving Afghanistan.
Usually, the victors of a war are left with extra military equipment - which is the position the Taliban find themselves in. Videos on US tv networks show the Taliban entering hangers with US made aircraft in them. US generals responded by saying that those are not US aircraft but rather they are owned by the Afghan govt :-) Today, the same US generals admit that a cache of 300,000 machine guns might not have been destroyed! In the next few days, we will get more details on the best/worst way to hand power back to the enemy you were sent to defeat. No one doubted that the Afghans would defeat the invaders. The surprise is that the Soviet retreat - last century - now seems to be ten times more efficient than the US one. Oh! one last thing. The US claim to have in the last few days evacuated 100,000 people from Kabul airport, an airport that the Taliban were given the job of vetting who could get near the evacuation gates. These evacuees are on their way to the US. Mervyn
