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Line 60: − − 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>
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{{Quotebox-float|"35-year-old PhDs who love to talk, because that's the way you let everybody know how smart you are, is how much you talk."}} Hagel continues, "[Obama] has a staff around him that's very inexperienced. I don't think there's one veteran on his senior staff at the White House. I don't believe there's one business person. I don't believe there's one person who's ever run anything. Other than [[Vice President Biden]], none of them have ever been elected to anything." Sec. [[Robert Gates]] criticized "staffers calling senior commanders out in the field and asking them questions, of second guessing commanders...I told my combatant commanders and field commanders … if you get calls from … the president, that's one thing. But if you get a call from some White House or National Security Council staffer, you tell them to call me instead, and then tell them, by the way, go to hell." Hagel also criticized [[Susan Rice]]'s approach and subservience to Obama. https://youtu.be/GPPx83VoLyY</ref> to [[Hillary Clinton]]: 'Al Qaeda is on our side'.]]
{{Quotebox-float|"35-year-old PhDs who love to talk, because that's the way you let everybody know how smart you are, is how much you talk."}} Hagel continues, "[Obama] has a staff around him that's very inexperienced. I don't think there's one veteran on his senior staff at the White House. I don't believe there's one business person. I don't believe there's one person who's ever run anything. Other than [[Vice President Biden]], none of them have ever been elected to anything." Sec. [[Robert Gates]] criticized "staffers calling senior commanders out in the field and asking them questions, of second guessing commanders...I told my combatant commanders and field commanders … if you get calls from … the president, that's one thing. But if you get a call from some White House or National Security Council staffer, you tell them to call me instead, and then tell them, by the way, go to hell." Hagel also criticized [[Susan Rice]]'s approach and subservience to Obama. https://youtu.be/GPPx83VoLyY</ref> to [[Hillary Clinton]]: 'Al Qaeda is on our side'.]]
In the absence of a functioning president, Biden national security advisor [[Jake 'al Qaeda is on our side' 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>
In the absence of a functioning president, Biden national security advisor [[Jake 'al Qaeda is on our side' 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 ''[[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."
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."