Biden's Gun Gift To The Taliban
By Cam Edwards | Aug 18, 2021 5:00 PM ET
Back when Joe Biden was vice-president, the Obama/Biden administration sent thousands of firearms across the U.S.-Mexico border and into the hands of the drug cartels as part of Operation Fast & Furious. It seems hard to believe that Biden could top that exercise in stupidity, but with the collapse of the Afghan government in the wake of the pullout of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, he’s truly outdone himself.
As Reuters reports, some Taliban fighters are giving up their AK-47s and swapping them out for American-made battle rifles; just a small part of the booty left behind as the military scrambled to exit the country ahead of Biden’s self-imposed deadline of September 11th.
Video and pictures published by the Taliban on Twitter and elsewhere show fighters carrying M4 carbines and M16 rifles discarded by Afghan army units. Other images show Taliban forces capturing abandoned government vehicles.
The U.S. guns are more accurate and have greater range than the their AK-47s, but on their own may not deliver much added capability on the battlefield.
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