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So if they have worked it out earlier, Taliban would've ended up with a reactor, too?
by golergka 5y ago
So if they have worked it out earlier, Taliban would've ended up with a reactor, too?
- azernik 5y agoThe US did quite well at keeping the sensitive stuff out of Taliban hands. What the Taliban got was: 1. Enormous quantities of gear that belonged to the Afghan government 2. US military equipment that the US consciously decided not to pack out or destroy.
- ceejayoz 5y agoQuite a bit of that had to be destroyed on site - glass powder in helicopter fuel tanks etc. Harder to do safely with a reactor.
- mattr47 5y agoThe US military did not leave any helicopters when it pulled out. The Afghan Army and US State department left helicopters.
- ceejayoz 5y agoThat's semantic quibbling that's entirely missing the point.
- azernik 5y agoNo, it isn't. Equipment that the US military was managing was evacuated securely and on schedule. Equipment that it had handed off to other parties (mostly the ANA) was not. Nuclear reactors are not likely to fall into the second category.
- 542354234235 5y agoThe Taliban got equipment that the US gave to the Afghan government military. The US didn’t leave them with sensitive or specialized equipment. Anything left behind that was sensitive was permanently disabled.
- Lammy 5y agoIt’s so handy how there’s always a national-level partisan angle to prevent us from ever having to discuss certain global issues. I get so many upboats in my favorite racially-segregated-Tweet-screenshots subreddit when I incredulously wonder how Those People can even exist with such broken brains. We should really Do Something about them or they might become violent next time I remind them that their perception of reality is wrong.
- thrashh 5y agoCynicism is destroying discourse. Everyone thinks that everyone else is dumb and no one respects the shoes that other people walk in.