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The 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
by azernik 5y ago
The 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.