US unleashes B-52s in bid to stem Taliban advance

The Taliban are now armed with American weapons. Entire bases were abandoned overnight, full of supplies and equipment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;f37xrmiqmnU?t=132" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;f37xrmiqmnU?t=132</a><p>There are videos of Taliban rolling through cities in American humvees:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.co&#x2F;cdHsZgjSv8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.co&#x2F;cdHsZgjSv8</a><p>Its a matter of time before they take Kabul.<p>$2.2trillion gifted to the Military Industrial Complex.

AFAIK the Afghan commanders stole their soldiers pay so the soldiers sold their weapons to the Taliban. The Taliban taking it back over seems like a natural consequence.

Hey, a concert instead of bombs might promote goodwill and healing in a war town land. Though I&#x27;m not sure how well an Islamist group would take to &#x27;Love Shack&#x27;, it might actually further sour relations.

And at the same time the US enters deal with the Taliban for them to protect an oil pipeline.<p>Everyone, including the US, assumes the Taliban will rule all of Afghanistan within months.

The article describes the Afghan Air Force as struggling. But they literally don’t have anything close to a B-52 in their fleet, in fact they have no bombers at all.

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Is it possible the country has become so heavily dependent on western money that insurgence happens to bring back the flow of cash from returning western military presence there?

You already pulled out. Just give it up.

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The Taliban regime is going to be hostile to women. It&#x27;ll be a return to violence, executions, and feudalism. Yet I see a lot of liberals that have no problem with a Taliban takeover and would rather see a US withdrawal.<p>I&#x27;m a liberal person, but I think Taliban takeover is a horrific outcome. What&#x27;s the argument &#x2F; angle here?<p>Furthermore, it seems to open the geopolitical sphere for China to step into the vacuum. It gives them more people to sell to, and a broader Belt and Road. It&#x27;s strategic for their exports, too. That seems to not be in the interest of the United States.<p>Also, US troops in Afghanistan are positioned close to the Chinese border, which seems like a thing the US would want in order to apply pressure.<p>What&#x27;s going on? I don&#x27;t understand the withdrawal at all.

The unrelenting Taliban aggression into Afghanistan, the ancestral heartland of the United States which Americans have inhabited for millennia, is outrageous.<p>They should go back to their own country, IMO.

What surprises me the most about the US withdrawing is that Biden didn&#x27;t remember what happened when the US left Iraq when he was VP. Military commentators were almost universally saying withdrawing was a bad idea, especially with how few US resources were in Afghanistan.

War is stupid.