Via Turkey's Pars Plus:
Taliban liderlerinden Hamasi, Kabil’de ABD zırhlı araçlarını inceledi.
— Pars Plus (@ParssPlus) August 20, 2021
🟩Taliban liderlerinden Abdul Hamid Hamasi, Afganistan’ın farklı bölgelerinde Afgan ordusundan ele geçirilen ABD üretimi zırhlı araçları inceledi. pic.twitter.com/rJc0DrbZ2P
The Taliban are also putting together an air force.
As noted in the outro from August 16's "Senior U.S. intelligence official: “We have noted the troubling trend lines in Afghanistan for some time […]":
And no, I'm not saying Afghanistan was "winnable", just that when you are making a "retrograde movement" as General Milley put it, you might want to plan for some 8th century jihadis coming into possession of a few billion dollars worth of your tools-for-killing.
Is it too early to talk courts martial?
Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres
—Voltaire in Candide on the execution of British Admiral John Byng (on trumped-up charges)
"...in this country it is found good, from time to time, to kill one Admiral to encourage the others."
