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It’s been four years since the U.S. completed its disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal under President Biden. And, to make matters worse, a recent inspector general report revealed that the weaponry we left behind now forms the “core” of the Taliban.
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From Just the News:
A massive number of U.S.-made and U.S.-supplied weapons and military facilities were left behind in Afghanistan as a result of President Joe Biden’s troop withdrawal announcement in April 2021, which resulted in the dissolution of the Afghan military, a chaotic U.S. evacuation, and a Taliban takeover in August 2021.
The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) issued its “final forensic audit report” this week more than four years after the U.S. withdrawal and evacuation from the country, concluding that “these U.S. taxpayer-funded equipment, weapons, and facilities have formed the core of the Taliban security apparatus.” SIGAR said in its final report that it will close its doors at the end of January 2026 as a result of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2025.
The report said that the Pentagon has concluded that the U.S. left behind weaponry worth at least $7.1 billion — weapons now in the hands of the Taliban — and that the U.S. government also continued to send $3.47 billion in humanitarian and development assistance to Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.
The U.S. first invaded Afghanistan in 2001 following the terrorist attack on September 11. In a letter attached to the report, Acting SIGAR Gene Aloise described the Afghanistan war as a “two-decade long effort fraught with waste,” lamenting that “despite 20 years and $90 billion of U.S. support, the U.S. and Afghan governments failed to create an independent and self-sustainable Afghan National Defense and Security Forces [ANDSF].”
The report also detailed just how much money and equipment ended up in the hands of the Taliban following the withdrawal. SIGAR stated that “approximately $7.1 billion in material and equipment” originally given to the ANDSF is now in the possession of terrorists. Additionally, the Taliban is also assumed to have taken control of approximately $57.6 million that likely remained in Afghan-government-controlled accounts at the time of the withdrawal.
Not only did the U.S. arm the Taliban when it left Afghanistan, the SIGAR report also showed that the U.S. continued sending money to the terrorists after withdrawing. According to the report, “SIGAR found that since the fall of the Afghan government in August 2021, at least $10.9 million in U.S. funds were used to pay taxes to the Taliban-controlled government on the $2.8 billion in humanitarian and development assistance delivered to help the people of Afghanistan.”
It is sad that our nation funded and continued to terrorists in Afghanistan after two decades of wasteful war. As intercessors, let’s pray for wisdom and prudence in our leaders, and let’s pray that our taxpayer money will never again end up in the hands of terrorists!
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(Excerpt from Just the News. Photo Credit: WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
