[allendale]

Biden is facing a political catastophre. He of course is blaming Trump.He takes no blame for abandoning entire airbases in the dead of night and the abandonment of tons of military equipment, guns and ammunition to be seized by the Taliban. Now he is sending 5,000 brave young American soldiers and Marines ostensibly to aid in the evacuation of the embassy and other Americans. The reality is that these troops are now a garrison for Kabul. Their mission will be to preserve the fiction of the Afghan government and try to prevent carnage and blood fest photo ops which will be embarassing to the Biden cabal. Once again American blood will be shed on hehalf of vile, wothless politicians.

[blueplum]

I seriously don't get leaving tons of equipment unless everything is gps’d for future target practice, like I suggested 2 years ago.

Our troops could have had some stress-relief fun blowing bunkers and maintenance bays full of vehicles like the 4th on steroids. But nooooo

[eyedigress]

The Taliban is just a bunch of “Dog faced Pony soldiers”.

Says the grifter banker from Delaware.

[ConservativeInPA]

Once again American blood will be shed on hehalf of vile, wothless politicians

Pray for our troops. They are being placed in harms way when Biden could avoided all of this. Pray that their blood is not on Biden's hands and that God delivers them from this Muslim infested hellhole.

[Cuttnhorse]

Biden is facing a political catastrophe.

It is going to be fun to watch all the ass covering that is about to get underway.
There are a LOT of brass in the Pentagon who are going to have to 'splain how, after 20-years in-country, they did not see this coming and were not prepared for this disaster.
But, they will claim to have purged all "white supremacists" from the military.

[shaven_llama]

> Now he is sending 5,000 brave young American soldiers and Marines ostensibly to aid in the evacuation of the embassy and other Americans. The reality is that these troops are now a garrison for Kabul.

Don’t know about that. But if the Taliban believe that to be the plan, they should be rushing to take the Kabul Airport ASAP.

[Travis McGee]

Maybe the absolutely stupidest part of our Afghanistan disaster:

Abandoning Bagram AFB in the dark of night, with no notice to the ANA, so that we now have no way to stage and fly tactical missions into and out of A-stan, other than from Kabul Int’l Airport (now jammed full of evacuees and civilian refugees.)

If we still had Bagram, we could use it to handle tactical fighters and troop transports, enough to keep the Taliban at bay until we evacuated Kabul. Taking off, reloading and landing at Bagram, ins

tead of hours and hours away. Without Bagram AFB, we are reduced to flying tactical missions from very long range. This gives the Taliban an immense OODA loop advantage. The Taliban now has local air assets (ex Russian Hips, ex U.S. Blackhawks), artillery up to 155mm howitzers, etc. This means they can move troops and artillery around much faster than we can respond with air missions from approx. 1,000 miles away.

Now, the Taliban can shut down Kabul Intl’ anytime they choose, using local forces under their control. We are 100% at their mercy. A total debacle. Every general involved should be busted to private and then fired without a pension.

Or shot.