Posted on 07/30/2021 11:27:28 PM PDT by weston
Repeated watchdog, intel warnings undercut Biden’s public assurances on Afghan army
By John Solomon
Updated: August 17, 2021
Fresh from the Fourth of July holiday, President Biden confidently assured the American people last month that the Afghan army was up to holding the line against the Taliban as the U.S. withdrew it forces after 20 years of warfare. “I trust the capacity of the Afghan military, who is better trained, better equipped, and more competent in terms of conducting war,” the president declared from the White House’s ornate East Room on July 8.
A few days later, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff gave a less rosy assurance, but disputed claims a Taliban takeover was inevitable. “A negative outcome – a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan – is not a foregone conclusion,” Army Gen. Mark Milley told reporters. “…I don’t think an end game is yet written.”
But inside U.S. intelligence agencies, the Pentagon and the independent U.S. watchdog for Afghanistan, the warning lights were blinking red that the Afghan Army that the United States spent 20 years training and tens of billions of dollars equipping had a glass jaw that could be crushed easily, according to Just the News interviews with a dozen U.S. officials and a review of several hundreds of pages of memos and reports.
John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and a lifelong Democrat, explicitly warned that Afghans couldn’t even handle their own re-fueling operations, their soldiers were prone to defections and allegiances to tribes over command structure, and their fighter jets were far less ready than the American military commanders had portrayed.
“Five of the seven airframes experienced decreases in readiness in the last month of the quarter [June],” Sopko wrote in one warning report days after Biden and Milley made their assurances. “This coincided with the Taliban offensive and the withdrawal of U.S. and Coalition forces, including aircraft-maintenance contractors. The combined effect of the two appeared to reduce aircraft readiness rates.”
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The Biden regime seems a lot more efficient when it comes to removing Afghanis and getting them into America than it does rescuing the Americans and getting them home safely. It’s almost like this was the plan from the start. More invasion and the west becomes a little less “west”.
It’s all good!
Yes, they never let a(manufactured) crisis go to waste.
Billary’s back.
With Americans now able to cross the border into Canada for vacation… the Clintons are back in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.
This photo of Bill and Hillary was shared by the town of Sutton this evening. The couple was shopping at a local store, l’Atelier Bouffe. pic.twitter.com/LwsbTcm9II— Michael Armstrong (@ArmstrongGN) August 11, 2021
Some people should remain masked forever. Hillary would be one of them.
Thanks for the head’s up. I wonder what those two snakes are doing up here.
From the John Solomon article.....
“Officials told Just the News that Biden and his security team turned down military commanders’ requests to keep U.S. troops in place temporarily, and they gave back the Bagram air base in the dead of a summer night even though it could have provided an alternate location for evacuating American personnel should Kabul’s civilian airport fall to the enemy.”
Is this total incompetence or as you said, Rusty, a(manufactured) crisis?
I jumped back pretty good, and screamed, lol.
Scary! We have timber rattlers in GA but I’ve never seen one here. I’ve seen them in Alabama tho.
Thanks (and, good morning), Gran.
John Solomon does another great job of outlining this.
Please....R Reps....anyone of you...use this as a guideline for impeaching this demented poser, at the WH.
Military now also throwing Joe under the bus.
I think the Ho should go under the SAME bus....and, Nasty, too.
Funny how she’s now ‘feigning’ holding *hearings*, on this. CYA much, Nasty?
The whole thing is a perfect scenario for the rabid left. They get to spit on the faces of American patriots, put Americans directly in harm’s way, provide arms and equipment for their friends, the Tollybon, flood America with a whole lot more non-white D voters, and Biden looks bad enough that Commiela is one step closer to making her big move. This “blunder” sure does check off a lot of boxes.
Looking for a hideout from the white hats, I’m sure.
Oh hey, hearing anything about the special election Trudeau called?
I’m thinking they can’t be that stupid.
I probably would have had a heart attack.
The criminal liberals are ahead in the polls. We have pathetic wishy washy conservatives up here....they’re not that much different than the liberals. They’re petrified of the press.
We also have the People’s Party of Canada, our equivalent of the MAGA movement. They are getting more support each time, but it’s the same old thing.....the more support they get, the vote on the right is split, and the libs are laughing.
Canadians are so pathetic, so ill-informed, so brainwashed....all of Canada is like California.
We’ve got plenty of rattlesnakes here too. They taste like chicken.
Morning, Jane.
Remember what Chucky said about the intel community?
“They have 6 ways from Sunday to get back at you!”
Could that be applied to the military too?
I think Biden is going to be feeling that “bite” soon.
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