US scrapping 'tons' of equipment as Afghan exit looms

[bogeyman]

"In total, the US military will not be shipping home “more than $7 billion worth of equipment — about 20 percent of what the US military has in Afghanistan — because it is no longer needed or would be too costly to ship back home,” the report continued."

http://rt.com/news/afghanistan-us-withdrawal-war-003/

I'm amazed at the waste of resources and money, the congress have pledged another 80 billions to Afghanistan, yet 40 percent of their own population remains below the poverty line, I'm mind boggled at all this.

[Sérénité]

So of course this 7 billion dollars worth of kit will be destroyed right? I mean, god forbid someone wanted to buy it, or store it, or use it...

[Prodigal Son]

That steel is worth a lot of $$$$. They're destroying it for the same reason as they're razing Sandy Hook Elementary School and all the evidence at Ground Zero. Christ only knows what they were doing in those tanks.

PS.... I'm half kidding here, but man, they are dirt and nothing is ever as it seems.

[MadMax1]

They have always left lot of equipment and other junk behind after every war going right back to WW2 they left alot of crap on the pacific islands they were based on and pushed alot of equipment of aircraft carriers and othe battle ship at the end of WW2, i watched the documnetry and seen the footage of them pushing jeeps and other small vehicles and artillery pieces over board into the ocean.

[Prodigal Son]

They have always left lot of equipment and other junk behind after every war going right back to WW2 they left alot of crap on the pacific islands they were based on and pushed alot of equipment of aircraft carriers and othe battle ship at the end of WW2, i watched the documnetry and seen the footage of them pushing jeeps and other small vehicles and artillery pieces over board into the ocean.

So the US Military lies then... what a surprise


the US will engage in a “massive disposal effort, which US military officials call unprecedented,” the Washington Post reported.

[jiminii]

"In total, the US military will not be shipping home “more than $7 billion worth of equipment — about 20 percent of what the US military has in Afghanistan — because it is no longer needed or would be too costly to ship back home,” the report continued."

http://rt.com/news/afghanistan-us-withdrawal-war-003/

I'm amazed at the waste of resources and money, the congress have pledged another 80 billions to Afghanistan, yet 40 percent of their own population remains below the poverty line, I'm mind boggled at all this.

after WWII .. they buried thousands of military equipment in the majave desert and the reason was ... that they wanted to restimulate the economy ... something like that

jim

[jiminii]

if this is true ... it looks like they are trying to drive the dollar back up ...
the way it works is like this
they buy a radio from Japan for a dollar ...
then inflate the dollar for the next 4 years until it is worth 25 cents

then no one wants the dollar ...so they buy the dollar back for 15 cents

so in reality japan sold the radio for 15 cents not a dollar

then they drive the dollar back up and make billions

jim

[Ernie Nemeth]

What an absolutely shameful mess! Here is a country whose citizens are struggling to make ends meet and they're government scraps billions in military equipment - that will all have to be replaced in the future with new toys of war. And the public has no reaction - again. This same government paid out of the pockets of the taxpayer more than 16 trillion dollars in banker bailouts - with an additional 1 quadrillion in toxic derivatives. Such waste, in a time of supposed austerity.

What does it take to shake people out of their tidy little myopic fantasy lives? This system supports the rich and thumbs its collective aristocratic nose at the hoards of ordinary citizens. When will we wake up?

War does not work. Money does not work. Government does not work. Democracy does not work. Technological advancement won't save us. Science can't save us. Religion can't save us. God won't save us. There is no golden age upon us.

We have to do this ourselves. We are the only resource that can. It will require hard work and dilligence and sacrifice. And no amount of hoarding will serve to see us through these tough times. You cannot ignore it, run from it, call it something else. You cannot build a bunker or move to Equador, or buy land in Arizona, or purchase a gun and ammo. If you do these things you will find yourself on the wrong side when tshtf. What are you going to do? Turn away a person in need? Will you shoot them to protect your dwindling supplies? Or will you just watch them starve on your front porch...or on your TV from your vantage point in some faraway domain? Will you just chalk up their unfortunate situation as poor planning - that they deserve what they have coming? Think about it...

These insane wars our governments are engaged in are atrocious, plain and simple. War is waste. Wasteful. Just more of the same mentality to just junk the toys when they're done. They can always make more and better toys for future wars...

[CdnSirian]

The American taxpayers should be in charge of what happens to this multi billion dollars "junk". It should be sold and distributed back to the individuals who paid taxes. Fair.

[Etherios]

we are talking about afghanistan here ... so many of these maybe drug related equipment ... storage etc

they cant possibly sell these and expose what really was happening there ... can they?

Also they dont care ... the army i mean. Other people are paying up for those ...

[jiminii]

The American taxpayers should be in charge of what happens to this multi billion dollars "junk". It should be sold and distributed back to the individuals who paid taxes. Fair.

your tax can't even pay the interest for maybe the next 1000 years ... they just print money ,.. whatever they need ... and assign it as a debt... ..so if they need money to do something in iraq ... they print money and loan it to the military .. then mark it as a debt ... this has nothing to do with taxes ... they are way past needing taxes ... taxes is only a vehicle they use to control the people's money .... tax on tax .... they say there is no tax on tax ... but that is a big lie ... every company and their workers must pay tax so they have to raise the price of their products ... so from the farm to the market to the people is all tax on tax ... and this is just how they control our money to keep us poor ..... for the wars . ... they just write out a check and give it to the military and mark it as debt ....

jim

[jiminii]

they have to dump all that stuff ... because if they bring it all back here ...then they have a huge surplus they can just sell of for 25 dollars a truck as a surplus .. and will cause the prices of everything to go down to almost nothing ... that is all part of demand and supply ... too much supply will cause the dollar to go to the bottom ... so they dump it so they can now put everyone back to work making new tanks and trucks for their next war ... and drive the dollar up so that they can make billions off buying all those dollars from foreign countries at the lowest rate .. making them pay the bill.

jim

[Cidersomerset]

Military industrial complex rubs its hands, at another profitable venture!!

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Published on 21 Jun 2013


As the U.S. army rushes to complete its pull-out from Afghanistan,
parts of the country are already turning into huge junkyards. The
Pentagon is destroying U.S. vehicles and other military equipment,
despite the war already having cost American tax payers more than
630 billion dollars. RT's Gayane Chichakyan investigates, RT is also
joined by author and activist David Swanson.