Joe Biden abandoned billions of dollars in materiel to the Taliban after bugging out of Kabul, not to mention 14,000 Americans. The Taliban now use American heavy arms to pursue its radical Islamist ambitions in Afghanistan and routinely parade them to demonstrate their power.
One may forgive Israel for learning a lesson from that collapse. Rather than allow Hezbollah or other radical-Islamist factions in the Syrian rebellion to seize the military assets of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the IDF has conducted a systematic campaign to zero out the threat those weapons systems pose to Israel:
Israel pounded Syrian army bases on Tuesday in strikes it says aim to keep weapons from falling into hostile hands, but denied its forces had advanced into Syria beyond a buffer zone at the border.
Regional security sources and officers within the now-fallen Syrian army who…
