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Thinking about the last time I left the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. It was dangerous then. I can only imagine what is happening now. Biden totally screwed this up. https://t.co/R4PSQnEvhM [https://twitter.com/ScottWalker/status/1426948442471944204?s=20 Aug 15, 2021]</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> Between 2003 and 2016, the United States transferred nearly 600,000 weapons, 76,000 vehicles, 163,000 communication devices, 208 aircraft, and surveillance and reconnaissance equipment to the Afghan forces<ref>https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Z6QTgzyWzBQJ:https://www.theepochtimes.com/billions-of-dollars-in-us-weapons-aircraft-likely-seized-by-taliban_3956556.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us</ref> With billions spent by the U.S. in [[Afghanistan]], in the end, only the [[Taliban]] benefited.<ref> [https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-08-17/billions-spent-on-afghan-army-ultimately-benefited-taliban Billions Spent on Afghan Army Ultimately Benefited Taliban] Associated Press, US News, Aug 17, 2021.
Thinking about the last time I left the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. It was dangerous then. I can only imagine what is happening now. Biden totally screwed this up. https://t.co/R4PSQnEvhM [https://twitter.com/ScottWalker/status/1426948442471944204?s=20 Aug 15, 2021]</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> Between 2003 and 2016, the United States transferred nearly 600,000 weapons, 76,000 vehicles, 163,000 communication devices, 208 aircraft, and surveillance and reconnaissance equipment to the Afghan forces<ref>https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Z6QTgzyWzBQJ:https://www.theepochtimes.com/billions-of-dollars-in-us-weapons-aircraft-likely-seized-by-taliban_3956556.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us</ref> With billions spent by the U.S. in [[Afghanistan]], in the end, only the [[Taliban]] benefited.<ref> [https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-08-17/billions-spent-on-afghan-army-ultimately-benefited-taliban Billions Spent on Afghan Army Ultimately Benefited Taliban] Associated Press, US News, Aug 17, 2021.
''Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, 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>
''Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, 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>
''[[Reuters]]'' reported about all the American military equipment in the Taliban’s hands. “Video showed the advancing insurgents inspecting long lines of vehicles and opening crates of new firearms, communications gear and even military drones.”<ref>https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/planes-guns-night-vision-goggles-talibans-new-us-made-war-chest-2021-08-19/</ref>
==Taliban==
==Taliban==