NATO’s Epic Fail: Taliban Retake Major Hub of Kunduz in Afghanistan

NATO’s Epic Fail: Taliban Retake Major Hub of Kunduz in Afghanistan

 US and NATO technocrats found themselves bewildered again today upon news that the Taliban has overtaken a strategic hub of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan.

It’s the Taliban’s biggest military gain since they lost power in 2001.

Something
doesn’t add up. After 15 years, thousands of dead western soldiers and
hundreds of thousands of dead Afghan civilians – and a total financial
cost of over half a trillion dollars – the US-led NATO
experiment in Afghanistan has chalked up another embarrassing failure
against an enemy with no money and military equipment aside from Toyota
pick-up trucks, various and sundry IED’s and an aging arsenal of
Soviet-era Kalashnikov rifles.

Taliban fighters with a captured Afghan Army Humvee in Kunduz province, Afghanistan (Image Source: The Long War)