Someone's not following the topic.... it's free for the nation's we give things to. Obviously it's not free to us. The whole point of this convo was to explain to flapp that not every county that gets things from us has to give us money. And that we don't lease everything
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First, if you can't spell "country" correctly, then you don't get to explain anything to me or anyone else.
Second, EEF was trying to make a technical point -- that once we gave equipment to Afghanistan, that stuff ceased to be "US equipment."
That's 100% wrong. The Afghan forces may have possession of it and use it, but it will remain US equipment because that's who provided it.
Military arms are different than vaccinations. We can never take back vaccines which were administered, but we could take any stock that hadn't been used. "
Most arms are maintained in armories until issued to someone. I don't know if the armories are US or Afghani maintained and secured, but it doesn't matter much. If the arms were never issued, we'd have every right to take them, reallocate them to another country, or destroy them.
Again, if we bought it and we provided it, then the equipment is still "US equipment," no matter its disposition after delivery. We have every right and responsibility to keep weapons we provided out of the hands of our enemies. To do the opposite is not being good stewards of US tax payer funding.
You're arguing like it's a personal property dispute. Not even close.
If someone stumbles on a cache of automatic weapons in Mexico after a cartel compound is raided, and if the weapons were made in the US, the news would read, "US Weapons Discovered in Mexican Cartel Raid."
It's a simple concept that apparently simple minds want to argue over.