The United States Army left the Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan at midnight, quietly, with out informing the brand new commander of the bottom as Joe Biden prepares to drag out American troopers from the war-ravaged nation. According to army officers in Afghanistan, they found that the US military had left greater than two hours after their departure.
“We (heard) some rumor that the Americans had left Bagram … and finally by seven o’clock in the morning, we understood that it was confirmed that they had already left Bagram,” Associated Press (AP) quoted Gen. Mir Asadullah Kohistani, Bagram’s new commander, as saying.
After the US military’s departure, looters ransacked the compound because the Afghan Army had not taken management of the airfield but. “At first we thought maybe they were Taliban,” an Afghan soldier mentioned. He mentioned that US officers known as them later to tell “we are here at the airport in Kabul.”
According to Kohistani, the US left behind almost 3.5 million objects together with tens of hundreds of bottles of water, power drinks and army ready-made meals, often called MRE’s. “When you say 3.5 million items, it is every small items, like every phone, every door knob, every window in every barracks, every door in every barracks,” Kohistani mentioned.
Electricity was turned off 20 minutes after the American troopers departed the bottom. Kohistani additionally acknowledged that whereas the departing military took the heavy weapons with them, they left small weapons and ammunition for the Afghan troops.
Satire turns into actuality
In July, 2011, standard satire web site The Onion printed a satirical article with the headline, “U.S. Quietly Slips Out Of Afghanistan In Dead Of Night”. In its article, it wrote, “In what officials said was the “only way” to maneuver on from what has change into a “sad and unpleasant” scenario, all 100,000 U.S. army and intelligence personnel crept out of their barracks at midnight Sunday and quietly slipped out of Afghanistan.”
The headline of the satire on The Onion
The satire spoke of a notice left by the US Army that mentioned, “By the time you read this, we will be gone. We regret any pain this may cause you, but this was something we needed to do. We couldn’t go on like this forever.”
“We still care about you very much, but, in the end, we feel this is for the best,” the notice mentioned. “Please, just know that we are truly sorry and that we wish you all the greatest of happiness in the future.”
While the precise particulars of US military’s departure from Bagram Airfield could range, actuality, it appears, has a bizarre approach of turning satire into actuality.