You have to remember that the equipment wasn't just "left behind" as if by accident in some disorganized retreat. It was operated by the Afghan Air Force and wa

You have to remember that the equipment wasn't just "left behind" as if by accident in some disorganized retreat. It was operated by the Afghan Air Force and was an integral part of their defense. It wasn't the U.S. retreat that turned these over to the Taliban. It was the unexpected, near-immediate dissolution of the Afghan military that did.