The Afghan Air Force didn’t take flight because — God help us — Joe Biden refused to let outside maintenance crews into Afghanistan, effectively grounding the fleet.
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— BDW (@BryanDeanWright) August 15, 2021
Posted on 08/15/2021 8:43:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
With Afghanistan on fire, the airport in chaos, and uncertainty on how all US personnel will make it out alive, the recriminations for what is still transpiring are in full swing. You’ll be less than shocked to learn that some are blaming Donald Trump, who hasn’t been president for the last seven months.
On the other hand, those living within the confines of our current reality are pointing the finger where it belongs, toward the current President of the United States. While Joe Biden had previously taken credit for his supposedly fabulous withdrawal plan, he’s now desperately trying to pass the buck, be it to Republicans or perhaps his own vice president.
Yet, things look to be even worse than they first appeared. Reports are coming out that the reason the Afghan Air Force couldn’t operate is that the Biden Administration banned foreign maintenance contractors (i.e. the only people with the expertise) from entering Afghanistan.
This per The Daily Beast.
The Afghan Air Force didn’t take flight because — God help us — Joe Biden refused to let outside maintenance crews into Afghanistan, effectively grounding the fleet.
pic.twitter.com/0L1wNSqGPa— BDW (@BryanDeanWright) August 15, 2021
Helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft do not just run into perpetuity. That’s especially true when dealing with military variants, which can often require many hours of maintenance for every actual flight hour flown. By banning foreign contractors from helping the Afghan Air Force maintain its fleet, Biden effectively grounded it and took them out of the fight.
And while they weren’t flying the latest and greatest types, A-29 CAS aircraft and Mi-24 Hinds (along with the other light-attack helicopters the Afghan Air Force had) would have been very useful in trying to hold off the Taliban as they advanced toward Kabul, even if temporarily.
This revelation follows a disturbing pattern that has arisen within Biden’s withdrawal strategy. It appears that no care whatsoever was given to ensuring the Afghanis could — or were even allowed to — maintain the logistics needed to operate after US forces left. A military can have all the men they want, but without proper logistics and leadership, including the ongoing maintenance of equipment, things will always collapse. That’s what appears to have happened here.
The question is why? Why would the Biden administration want to bar foreign contractors from maintaining the Afghan Air Force, thereby keeping them mission ready? None of this makes sense, and there needs to be a major investigation into what went into these terrible decisions. Will there be, though? Who the heck knows.
Regardless, I don’t expect this to be the last, revealed embarrassment for the Biden administration.
“None of this makes sense...”
...unless you’re a Red Chinese stooge, then it makes perfect sense.
Yep. Team BaiDin is going to get ALL of us killed, or at least enough to make this place virgin territory for when China decides to FULLY move in.
US left Afghan airfield at night, didn’t tell new commander
July 6, 2021
The U.S. left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said.
https://apnews.com/article/bagram-afghanistan-airfield-us-troops-f3614828364f567593251aaaa167e623
Strange.
Exactly! Everything Biden and the Democrats - and 19 Republicans - are doing benefits China.
It’s like Biden was setting this all up for the Taliban in advance.
Isn’t Red State an Eric Erickson creation?
If it is, then that would explain what a garbage article this is.
Taliban Guy….. Hey there, aren’t you one of the guys that flies those helicopters?
Pilot……yes I am.
Taliban guy….. well, we know where you live, we know who your wife is, kids are, basically we know about your entire family and where they all live. We good?
Pilot…..understood.
That image of Obama and the words “My work here is done” (paraphrasing). Seems one could be done with Biden and the nutjob has been POTUS for only seven months.
I’m sure Biden’s people think its unfair that savages like the Taliban can’t make or keep modern equipment running — undoubtedly a result of unwoke, partriarchal, racist colonialism, which stole all of the cutting-edge, Taliban technology and kept it for Amerika and which forced the Taliban, formerly the most kind and civilized people in the entire universe, to act like filthy barbarians.
So abandoning modern aircraft to savages should be thought of as reparations for white privilege, or something like that.
Incompetence ?
Or
Complicity ?
They can’t all be incompetent,
but they can all be complicit imho.
If it is, then that would explain what a garbage article this is.
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Another digger I see.
Having a bad day ?
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If it is, then that would explain what a garbage article this is.
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Another digger I see.
Having a bad day ?
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Maybe you should hook up with some like minded company and take some days off
I hear Jan psaki is free.
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It would be nice if folks stopped saying Joe Biden did this and Joe Biden did that. Joe Biden doesn’t take a dump without the handlers of his cabal (Obama, Rice, Lynch, and other black ommies) tell him to do so.
I know it is easier to just blame one guy, but the guy we are blaming isn’t and hasn’t been calling the shots since they set him up to be President and then stole the election for him.
Joe Biden is like Governor LePetomane in Blazing Saddles, he’s nothing.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1427039572693749762
Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
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Aug 15, 2021
1. I just got off the phone with someone who recently returned from his third tour in Afghanistan. He emphasized we had a responsibility not just to translators and others with SIVs, but to Afghan troops—pilots and special forces in particular—who’d fought bravely by our side.
Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
2. He’s now forwarded me a text message from an Afghan friend. He asked that I tweet it.
“Terrorists are going door to door and killing pilots and SOFs, raping their families, and taking their houses. Two of my friends were shot dead. In Kabul.”
END
3:48 PM · Aug 15, 2021
IOW, he has been wrong about everything he opens his mouth about since he started opening his mouth.
This boner fail in the Afghanistan conflict pullout was predictable because he was in charge. Simple as that.
And instead of being a real leader and taking responsibility for his disastrous failure, he is scrambling, trying to blame Trump, or his incompetent VP or "the THING."
Oh well, Bill, maybe if you had supported Trump, this wouldn’t have happened. The blood is on your hands, Bill.
A foreshadowing of things to come, it seems. The Americans couldn’t trust their Afghan counterparts enough to plan an orderly withdrawal?
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Fox was sugarcoating it.
The young women become sexual slaves and the non young women become slaves.
They would have you believe it’s about education or lesser rights.
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