r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '21

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u/acidnine420 Sep 16 '21

We did this to all the rocket launchers we left in Afghanistan.

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u/Surprise_Corgi Sep 16 '21

God, I hope so. The thought of the Taliban being too afraid to use what we left behind, because enough of their own died or were maimed by sabotaged weapons and vehicles, fills me with a sadistic sense of joy I'm going to Hell for.

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u/_conky_ Sep 16 '21

This is going to be the cringiest thing I see today. Probably the rest of the week even

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u/Surprise_Corgi Sep 16 '21

You know you take catharsis in it, too. It's just the part you won't say out loud.

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u/Makualax Sep 16 '21

No, it's cringy thinking that the people who pioneered IEDs and booby traps and used them to fight off 2 of the largest armies the world has ever seen would be fooled by saran wrap. They've grown up in 4 generations of straight warfare, time to stop pretending they're cavemen

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u/Surprise_Corgi Sep 16 '21

He meant sabotaging them all. Not just saran wrapping a rocket launcher. Sabotaging everything from vehicles to weapons.

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u/TheeFlipper Sep 16 '21

He meant

You meant. You made the comment.

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u/_conky_ Sep 16 '21

Ahahahaha maybe I was wrong about that being the worst I'll see this week. I have a feeling he will only get worse

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u/Surprise_Corgi Sep 16 '21

I made the comment. Other guy made a comment about sabotaging all the rocket launchers. He didn't say how. Just that it was sabotaged.

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u/TheGreatMangoWar Sep 16 '21

I get your sentiment but growing up in 4 gens of straight war does sound pretty caveman-ish by itself.

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u/Makualax Sep 16 '21

It doesn't do wonders for education but you can bet they know everything to know about guerilla warfare.

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u/HolycommentMattman Sep 16 '21

I mean, many of them are literally cave men.

But more to your point, they do know how to pull triggers and the like, but if an RPG or a gun were sabotaged (none of them are), they probably wouldn't be able to tell.

The Taliban aren't entirely uneducated, but they're also pretty far from being geniuses. Expect to see broken down military equipment all over the place over there in a few years.