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==Jake Sullivan==
==Jake Sullivan==
In the absence of a functioning president, Sullivan took to the podium to answer questions about the Afghan [[rape jihad]].<ref>https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/08/17/biden-bro-jake-sullivans-afghanistan-presser-was-an-unmitigated-disaster-n428244</ref> Sullivan blamed Americans left behind for not leaving sooner despite the Biden regime insisting up to a few days earlier that Kabul was safe, would not be captured, and that the Afghan government was capable of repelling the Taliban.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/national-security/bidens-afghanistan-predictions-were-all-wrong/</ref>
The [[United States]] spent $83 billion equipping and training the Afghanistan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), including $10 billion in aircraft and vehicles.<ref>https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2021/08/us-spent-83-billion-training-afghan-forces-why-did-they-collapse-so-quickly/184529/</ref> In July 2021 the [[Pentagon]] said it was providing the Afghan Air Force 35 Black Hawk helicopters and three A-29 Super Tucanos. Less than a month later the Black Hawks helicopters and other aircraft were seized by the Taliban. Many of the aircraft and helicopters are armed. The A-29 Super Tucanos can fire laser-guided and other types of bombs. The Afghan government also had 50 American-made MD-530 attack helicopters, which are armed with machine guns and rockets. The Afghan Air Force had UH-60 Black Hawks and Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters, as well as C-130 and Cessna transports, and a small fleet of armed Cessnas.<ref>https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2021/08/taliban-captured-helicopters-can-they-capture-air-force/184525/</ref>
The ''[[Associated Press]]'' reported, "the Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly and completely — in some cases without a shot fired — that the ultimate beneficiary of the American investment turns out to be the Taliban."<ref>https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-army-taliban-995b069a9008690582cb34f4cacd8515</ref> When asked about American weapons captured by the Taliban, Sullivan responded that "certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban and obviously we don't have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport."
When asked about the Blackhawk helicopters and other equipment that the Taliban took, Sullivan filled up the sound byte with a bunch of proper nouns, formal titles, common buzzwords, phrases, and bureaucratese, then tried to actually defended the decision:
:'''Q.''' Can you shed light on the decision to leave behind Blackhawks and other equipment, how that fits in with the contingency plan in the U.S. to leave behind Blackhawks and other equipment? Why give the Taliban access to state-of-the-art equipment that they could either use to bolster their own defenses, or sell off to other countries?
:'''Sullivan.''' This is, ah, I think, a very good example of the difficult choices a president faces and a secretary of defense and secretary of state and national security adviser face in the context of the end of a 20-year war. Those Blackhawks were not given to the Taliban they were given to the Afghan National Security forces to be able to defend themselves at the specific request to President Ghani who came to the Oval Office and asked for additional air capability among other things. So the president had a choice he could not give it to them with the risk that it would fall into the Taliban's hands eventually or he could give it to them with the hope that they could deploy it in service of defending their country. Both of those options had risks he had to choose and he made a choice and from the point of view of that, uh, particular narrow example to a, for a, much wider range of examples that we contend with at the end of the day what the president has focused on all the way through here is trying to take the information that's been presented to him, the risks, costs and benefits of,<ref>"Cost-benefit analysis is a Republican spending reform of the Reagan era.</ref> and make decisions that were in the best national security interests of the American people. He has tried to do that. He talked about that at length yesterday, uh, and from that perspective, he believes the decision he made in this context was the right decision.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/nsa-jake-sullivan-says-the-taliban-has-a-fair-amount-of-our-weapons-and-they-probably-wont-give-them-back-video/</ref>
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