Posted on 08/15/2021 1:51:59 PM PDT by Enlightened1
President Joe Biden reportedly "overruled" top United States military commanders when he authorized the full withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan.
The Wall Street Journal reiterated Sunday that in ordering the full withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan, Biden was ignoring the advice of top military commanders, who suggested retaining a nominal force in Afghanistan to help maintain security.
From the WSJ:
In contrast to the numerous Trump policies he reversed, he opted to carry out Mr. Trump's deal with the Taliban instead of trying to renegotiate it. In so doing, he overruled his top military commanders: Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East; Gen. Austin Scott Miller, who led NATO forces in Afghanistan; and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Citing the risks of removing American forces to Afghan security and the U.S. Embassy, they recommended that the U.S. keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan while stepping up diplomacy to try to cement a peace agreement.
The newspaper first reported the news in April.
According to the WSJ, Biden's decision was motivated by ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which prompted American intervention in the Middle Eastern country.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also shared the concerns of top military leadership, the Journal reported in April.
Vice President Kamala Harris claimed in April that she was the last person in the meeting room when Biden made the decision to order a full U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Politico reported at the time, "Harris says she had key role in Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal decision."
"I have seen him over and over again make decisions based exactly on what he believes is right," Harris said in the CNN interview on which Politico was reporting.
Later on Sunday afternoon, after the Taliban entered the Afghan presidential palace and the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan reportedly evacuated the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, the Pentagon announced the deployment of an additional 1,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan.
"The Pentagon is authorizing the deployment of another U.S. 1,000 troops to Kabul, boosting overall number expected in Afghanistan to about 6,000, two U.S. officials tell me. The additional 1,000 come from an 82nd Airborne Division brigade already deploying in response to crisis," Dan Lamothe, a Washington Post reporter, said.
If Biden overruled the generals—he owns the defeat in Kabul. He and Harris are to blam for all the deaths that are happening now—or will in the next few days.
Pure B.S. Joe Biden does not have the wherewithal to tie his own shoelaces. This decision either came out of the deep state, Westexec, Obama, or whoever is running what little is left of the United States.
The only decisions left to Slow Joe is what flavor ice cream he wants. (Peroid)
So now we are putting 6,000 back in. Into a nightmare scenario in a captured environment. They would have been safer if we just left them in the first place as Big T was going to do.
The WSJ wanted Biden to win.
So we know Bidung is a complete corpse and of no true cognitive ability and WTF was the laughing hyenas “key role”? We have a clown government that has only been focused on Covid, white “extremists”/Trump supporters, sticking it to a President in exile and woke - tardation.
Incorrect. That is a lie. Biden didn't do anything with Trump's deal. He didn't keep pressure on the Taliban. He didn't keep pressure on Ghani. The Trump deal was working. The last 18 months of the Trump Administration there were zero American Deaths. The Taliban stayed put, because they knew they were dead if they did anything. Biden let them run wild. Big difference there.
Flash Bang or his look a like is hiding out at Camp David for 5 days.
You wish.
But Joseph Stolen did not follow any of the working plans.
No doubt this Afghanistan disaster would not be happening if the election weren’t stolen.
After 15 years, just noticed the space after the second underscore... lol.
A TOTALLY DEMENTED person “making decisions about what he thinks is right”.
“I have seen him over and over again make decisions based exactly on what he believes is right,”
I think I found the problem.
Trump will have to do it himself.
Without Bagram and with Kabul under fire, I don't imagine they flew in. If they went through Pakistan (spit) we would have heard about it.
It's 700 miles from the beach, so that's out. And Iran is on the other side.
Was this just blather? Are any of them actually in-country? And if so, is there a plan to extract them?
I imagine they are mustered on the East Coast somewhere, possibly with an advance guard in Kuwait.
And if they start killing the Americans left behind when our diplomats bugged out, is there a plan?
Her key role is that she watched him make decisions?
Shouldn’t that be Susan Rice “overruled” top United States military commanders
If he’s dumb enough to do that, and he definitely is, the Taliban will used the $$$ to buy more weapons and still murder everyone!
The perfumed princes are wasting no time in spinning their narrative which lays all of the blame on Biden and Harris. If they were overruled on such a momentous policy decision, it was their duty to the nation to resign and draw attention to this fiasco, before it became a full blown crisis.
Now we have US citizens “sheltering in place” until such time as the Taliban locate them, and either use them as hostages (best case scenario) or they inflict horrible deaths on them.
There are some NATO troops at the airport but they’re coming under fire from the peaceful Tallyband advance
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