Taliban "Equity"

When we first heard of the Taliban way back when, it was just Usama Bin Hiden, a few goat herders, a couple of AK-47's and a cave.  

That was when they first hit the scene by blowing up a 2,500 year-old Jordanian statue of Budda and running a tank over thousands of CD's.  Nice folks.

That was about 20 years ago, right after they knocked down the World Trade Center, crashed a plane into the Pentagon, forced another into the ground at Shanksville, and killed nearly 3,000 of our citizens and visitors.  Seems like it didn't take all that much to bring great pain on the Great Satan, as the Taliban likes to call us.

They did all that with a few folks in "Al Qaeda."  That's Arabian for "The Camp."  Just a few camel jockeys.  Imagine what they could do with an entire country?  (Stay tuned, fellow Pilgrims!).

So three presidents ago declared "We're Pissed" at these folks and we went in.  With both feet.

(BTW, the last war we declared was Number Two.  That was about 70 years and 30 wars ago.  Declare war?  We don't need to declare no stinkin' war!  As we say, that was then, this is now.)

Now? 

The O'Biden Administration, obviously feeling the need to insure that the Taliban has "equity" (a "Marxist" term for ending up equal no matter how you started out) in its existential fight with that Great Satan, has given the Taliban a yuuuuge inventory of shiny new weapons with which to fight us the next time we're forced to go in.  Which will maybe the week after  next.  I've posted a list below of the weaponry we've given to the new Taliban Army and Air Force so you can judge for yourselves just how "equitable" we've been with this once mortal enemy:

     Army:

     -  122,174 Humvees

     -  634 M-117 M-RAPS 

     -  155 MxxPro Mine-Proof vehicles

     -  169 M-113 Armored Personnel Carriers

     -  42,000 pickups and SUV's

     -  64,363 machine guns

     -  8,000 trucks

     -  162,043 radios

     -  16,035 night vision goggles

     -  176 artillery pieces

     -  358,530 assault rifles

     -  126,295 MD-9 pistols

Air Force:

     -  33 Mi17 helicopters

     -  133 UH-40 Blackhawk Attack Helicopters ($6.7 Million each)

     -  43 MDS-30 helicopters (Hughies)

     -  23 Embraer EMB Super Tucano

     -  28 Cessna Stationaire

     -  10 Cessna AC-208 Strike Gunship

     -  4,500 rocket propelled grenades

Oh yeah, millions and millions and millions of rounds of ammunition.

Now, I dunno' about you, but I'd say if Mr. O'Biden's goal was to make our enemy the Taliban much stronger and more deadly than before, and much more equal to us, than I'd say he's achieved his it.  I predict the coming days will be filled with potent and stark reminders as to exactly why we should have left a small security contingent in Afghanistan and left well enough alone.  Seems like O'Biden just cannot do that.

I might also mention, as both an ex-soldier and a historian, the empty suits we've elected have chosen to leave the battlefield.  Only time will tell if the battlefield has chosen to leave us...