#shorts On 4/6/2023, a reporter asked NSC Spox John Kirby, “In looking through this, it doesn’t seem to address the $7 billion in military hardware and technology that was left in Afghanistan for the Taliban. You know, the President took office in January; the withdrawal happened in August. Does the President take responsibility for — for leaving all or some of that?

Kirby: You know who’s responsible for that equipment? The Afghans. Because you know why? It was their equipment … the $7 million — $7 billion. There was very little — and I mean very little — U.S.-owned equipment or U.S.-operated equipment that we left when we left Afghanistan. I’m talking, like, some forklifts at the airport and some ladder vehicles, some fire trucks that we were using at the airport … Everything else outside of that airport — the stuff that’s at Bagram — or you pick the base in Afghanistan — was all turned over and according with a very elaborate, deliberate retrograde plan that the U.S. military put in place to turn over all that stuff to the Afghan military. And the Afghan military, as I said in my opening statement, decided they weren’t going to fight for their country, that they were just going to leave it behind. So, it is the Afghans who were responsible for the turnover of all that equipment.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/lzFvpzREoac
WH Spox John Kirby Blames Afghans For The Billions Of Dollars Of U.S. Equipment Left In Afghanistan