US leaves billions behind in Afghanistan

Blacklance36
Blacklance36 Posts: 755 Member
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www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/04/billions-in-equipment-supplies-being-left-behind-in-Afghanistan

Yeah I know, its Fox news, but still.......

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  • icu814me2
    icu814me2 Posts: 212 Member
    Makes me want to hurl!!!!
  • icu814me2
    icu814me2 Posts: 212 Member
    And, off subject...that bike is SWEEET!!!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    left billions behind in Afghanistan and just plain old lost billions of $$$ into thin air in Iraq...nothing new here really. We've pretty much just been throwing money away for the last 15 years or so.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    We've pretty much just been throwing money away for the last 15 years or so.

    Oooooh nooooo. Way before that.
  • sentaruu
    sentaruu Posts: 2,206 Member
    they have done this before with other occupied areas. they just leave it all there to rot.
  • Holly_Roman_Empire
    Holly_Roman_Empire Posts: 4,440 Member
    This happens all the time. I don't know why it's news.
  • EddieHaskell97
    EddieHaskell97 Posts: 2,227 Member
    Eh, it's usually worn out equipment that is worth less than the cost to return it home. I agree that it's wasteful, (and often littering) but this has been going on since at least WWI.
  • Chieflrg
    Chieflrg Posts: 9,097 Member
    Nothing new at all...

    I've personally seen semi trucks unload $250,000 worth of brand new office furniture for a military building only to wait for the dozens of dumpsters to be dropped so it can be thrown away as it was made by a different manufacturer that the contracted installer deals with.
  • Blacklance36
    Blacklance36 Posts: 755 Member
    Yes, it might have happened before but not to this extent. What a huge waste of money when the U.S. already has scarce resources.
    It also crosses my mind that some of this equipment is going to be used by the same people the military was fighting.
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