Part of Our Job was to Protect those Weapons

   I join the perhaps millions of others who do not understand how or why we let all the weapons and such fall into the hands of the Taliban. You say we had given the weapons -- billions of dollars worth -- to the Afghan government we were propping up? And, when that government collapsed, the Taliban simply seized them? You say the weapons therefore belonged to the Afghans, not to us, and it was not like the weapons seized by the Taliban were taken from our own soldiers?

   I'm not with you. We were still in Afghanistan. We still are. If the Afghan government was collapsing, we were right there witnessing it. We were probably stationed at the same bases, at least in some instances. As long as we were there -- as long as we still are -- part of our mission is to protect the weapons.