It’s called stand down. And Biden let them take over Afghanistan without firing a shot. Yup....we the great protectors, led by an insolent, arrogant President gave it way....and got 13 of our best killed.
“Since leaving Afghanistan, everyone who was on the gates has their own stories about the horrors they saw. American soldiers and Marines were placed under very strict orders not to interfere with anything that happened outside of the gates.”
I wonder if stuff like this is behind those three soldiers suicides recently. And hearing Milly testify that he told Biden we shouldn’t have left so quickly.
Bkmk
Is this barbaric? Some may say yes, others would say no. But I maintain it is the only viable solution for that country. It has been a pain in the backside of many countries for hundreds of years. It's time to wipe the slate clean and let them start over.
I do not lay any blame on the soldiers in this horrible situation.
I do blame the failure in Afghanistan upon the State Department and other alphabet agencies who never looked at this as a military operation. They were nation building in a place where there is no pattern for any successful attempts, although many have tried over hundreds of years.
Never in the history of the USA has an administration (regime) failed so miserably in exiting a conflict.
And NOW, they attempt to destroy the USA from the inside.
I disagree with some comments of the author.
Will the history books portray an accurate treatment of 20 years in Afghanistan? No.
There is something wrong with the writer’s summary of the US in Afghanistan. We did not kill hundreds of thousands of people there, etc. This sounds like a copying of left-wing anti-American agitprop. I heard the same shit in Nam and Cambodia when I was a short-term journalist there, propagated by leftist journalists. I talked to both SVN military and civilians about some of these stories and they didn’t jive. Same for Cambodia.
Be very careful of “extrapolation” stories.