MISTER, WE COULD USE A MAN LIKE COL. KURTZ AGAIN! Marines Departing Kabul Airport Were Forced to Clean up the Graffiti Insults They Left for Taliban.

Departing U.S. service members were told to destroy equipment at the Kabul airport, so as not to leave things behind of which the Taliban might make use. They smashed electronics, shattered windows, and stripped armored vehicles to render them useless to the Taliban. They had also strewn trash around the airport to interfere in any takeover by the Taliban.

“Many said they found that experience cathartic, particularly in the wake of the August 26 ISIS-K suicide bomb at one of the airport’s gates, the Abbey Gate, that killed 170 Afghans and 13 US service personnel,” according to the Daily Mail.

That wasn’t hard to believe. But, what happened next is.

Marines who were still angry about the suicide bombing attack which killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 170 Afghan civilians also left some graffiti messages for the terrorists. There was “F**K ISIS + Taliban” graffiti, including what looked like a penis painted in purple. Another message showed several troop members in front of a wall painted with “F**K ISIS, AFG 2021.” There was also a picture of service members holding a sign, which read: “F**k the Taliban.”

But the top brass ordered the Marines to clean off the messages and clean up the debris before they departed the airport.

“My boys had to go….pick up every last piece of….trash for who? The Taliban?” said a Marine to The Washington Post. “It was a slap in the face to us,” he said.

Marine spokesperson Lt. Jack Coppola claimed the trash had to be picked up so as not to interfere with flights but didn’t explain why they made Marines erase the graffiti.

As always, life imitates Apocalypse Now (Language warning):