Posted on 08/26/2021 7:59:06 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Retiring General Scott Miller is to blame for the bungled US exit from Afghanistan, a military expert who predicted the fall of the nation's capital months ago has claimed.
Bill Roggio, a senior fellow at think tank the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, slammed military leadership, telling DailyMail.com he tried to warn the Pentagon of the swift advance of the Taliban towards Kabul in the weeks before they took the city but was 'ignored'.
Roggio said President Joe Biden insisted on a reduced force of just 700 troops to both keep the US embassy in Kabul open and secure an airport to evacuate the rest of the 3,500 US soldiers, thousands of other Americans and Afghan allies.
As the US commander on the ground and facing the tight constraint, Miller chose Hamid Karzai International Airport in the middle of Kabul for the evacuation, telling US forces to abandon the nearby military airbase of Bagram outside the city.
Miller left Afghanistan in July and is due to retire from the military.
But his fateful decision came back to bite him when the Taliban swarmed into the capital within days, surrounding the airport and frustrating the evacuation of both Americans and allied Afghans, leaving many stranded and at risk of attack….
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Biden is the CIC. (Eye roll) He made the decision. The buck stops with him. Right?
Ding..Ding...Ding
We have a scapegoat.
They’re trying to pin it on Miller as he was picked by Trump to manage the draw-down and pull-out.
They could have sent most of the embassy home. Let key people work out of the base. Then level the embassy.
The state dept has been creating all sorts of deliberate chaos.
I did not realize that we elected Gen. Miller to President and Commander in Chief. Wow, our elections are most screwed up that I thought.
Biagon’s patsy. Who better than to pin it on then a retiring general. What no private around leaning on a broom to snag?
Don’t fall for the scape goat sacrifice. Many many many heads should roll from POTUS impeachment to wholesale court marshals on down the entire command chain. Milley made the statement to congress that closing Bagrham was part of the plan to shore up Kabul months ago.
Don’t fall for the scape goat sacrifice. Many many many heads should roll from POTUS impeachment to wholesale court marshals on down the entire command chain. Milley made the statement to congress that closing Bagrham was part of the plan to shore up Kabul months ago.
Bill Roggio is full of BS.
Joe. Joe and his handlers. They are to blame.
Retiring General with a big pension likely volunteered to fall on his sword for the Big Guy...
There will be a nice lakefront home courtesy of the DNC soon ready for his rocking chair...
He was following orders. Completely legal orders.
Miller is neither the CiC, SecDef, or CJCoS.
If it isn’t cost effective to bring it out, you destroy it with magnesium or thermite grenades.
Its kinda the clintons blame janet reno BS. Not working.
It also goes back before that to the decision to push it back from May to September.
I don't think sleepy Joe could find his butt with both hands.. I think it was a masterful stroke for islam setup by that stinking rat president from Kenya....
Common sense medal goes to you.
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Perfection.
The very IDEA, that_________(fill in the blank).
“ The spin game is starting. The Deep State Establishment still needs its stooge puppet Biden to continue on in office.”
After Biden’s performance yesterday, this presidency is over.
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