Former President Donald Trump said this week that the U.S. military should have destroyed its permanent bases before withdrawing from Afghanistan—an action that’s probably too late to take by now, according to a Marine Corps veteran who’s performed such operations. During an Aug. 17 interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Trump lamented the Taliban’s seizure of U.S. military equipment left abandoned at unmanned U.S. bases. “We have billions of dollars of brand new equipment. Take the equipment out. And then take the solders out,” Trump said. “And frankly, I said, ‘Take the soldiers out. But before you leave, blow up all the forts.’ Because we built these forts that are now being used by the enemy—it’s not even believable.” By now, it’s too late to properly demilitarize major bases such as the ones in Kandahar and Bagram, according to Defense Priorities senior fellow Gil Barndollar, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran …
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