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The General Who Recommended Abandoning Bagram Air Base Has Already Left Afghanistan. Hmm...
PJ Media ^ | AUG 18, 2021 | BRYAN PRESTON

Posted on 08/18/2021 9:22:12 PM PDT by george76

During Wednesday’s briefing by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CBS national security reporter Jennifer Griffin asked the two about the decision to abandon Bagram Air Base in the weeks leading up to Afghanistan’s collapse. That decision has proven to be crucial, as it left Afghanistan with no U.S. military support and now leaves the civilians stranded there with one option: to try to get to the Kabul international airport through Taliban checkpoints. The U.S. government issued a statement saying that it cannot guarantee their safety and that even if they can get to the airport, they will face a long wait.

That wait could have been made shorter and the evacuation safer with better planning and the use of Bagram Air Base, which has two runways. HKIA only has one.

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Milley clearly says the plan to abandon Bagram came from the commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Austin “Scottie” Miller, in response to orders from Washington.

It’s tempting to call for Miller’s firing now, but there’s a problem with that. He already left.

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Bagram is huge and could have been used to stage at least part of the non-combat evacuation operation (“NEO” in military-speak) that’s now underway. Milley says this is the second-largest NEO in U.S. history. Saigon, which Biden said would not happen, is probably the larger one Milley refers to.

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This was the plan: bug out of the largest U.S. base in the dead of night without even telling our allies, then a week later reassure them that we were always going to stand by them— when the military knew Biden had no intention of doing so.

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To: george76

There’s alot of CYA going on in Washington DC right now. Hard to tell what the truth is anymore.


21 posted on 08/18/2021 10:37:04 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: Enterprise

He followed orders - isn’t that special? He knew the right thing to do and he left thousands of US citizens behind. He has to live with his cowardice.


22 posted on 08/18/2021 10:42:24 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: McGruff

I would black out that combat infantryman badge.


23 posted on 08/18/2021 10:55:06 PM PDT by dsc (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. G. K. Chesterton)
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To: ebshumidors

Makes sense, LOTS of equipment for reverse engineering...


24 posted on 08/18/2021 11:13:47 PM PDT by Bikkuri ('You are perhaps thinking of the version filmed in London in the actual year of 1984 and starring Ri)
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To: george76

Milley and other top brass seek to blame an underling for this cluster frock


25 posted on 08/18/2021 11:18:01 PM PDT by antceecee
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To: webheart

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻


26 posted on 08/18/2021 11:18:26 PM PDT by antceecee
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To: Bikkuri

With the technology we have the damned equipment should have detonators inside every damn piece that can be remotely set off when they realize the Afghans were not going to fight every piece of equipment should have remotely been blown to bits!!!


27 posted on 08/18/2021 11:19:02 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: McGruff

Gen Milly is missing its “Order of Lenin”, hammer and sickle hair bow, and pentagram ear rings.


28 posted on 08/18/2021 11:31:30 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: Ahithophel

Build Back Burquas!


29 posted on 08/18/2021 11:35:05 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: neodad

“Maybe he knows where those missing planes are...”

I would be looking East, past the Chinese/Afghan border, or Iran, Pakistan, Russia...

But yes, we have a number who know roughly how, and where, our planes went.


30 posted on 08/18/2021 11:39:41 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Even some in the Chinese Politburo have to be scratching their heads at how dumb and easy all of this has been.

Really wish Taiwan had some nukes right now...


31 posted on 08/18/2021 11:47:03 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: Enterprise

It’s terrifying…not only for its possible consequences but for what it reveals about how the US operates these days. Turning off the electricity and slipping away in the middle of the night? Flat out lying by telling the Afghanis that they could rely on us, at the same time that our commanders there knew that we were planning on abandoning them? Betraying our allies (such as the Brits, who are furious)? And then listening to Biden blame the Afghan military for the whole disaster? Who the heck is ever going to trust us again?

This reveals such rot in our executive branch, which includes the State Department, and our military that I honestly don’t know how we can continue. Rot takes time to develop and this didn’t just start with Biden. I think you have the Obama years to thank for a lot of it - and don’t forget, Biden was also there - and this is just the final point where the whole rotted structure collapses.

Trump was just a brief, annoying interruption to them, and they got rid of him as fast as they could. He never had the support or even the cooperation of the military and I remember thinking at the time that Milley was not only close to insubordination but had actually gone there, and that there were several other high ranking military who were right there with him. And these are the very people we have to thank for this horror show.


32 posted on 08/18/2021 11:58:49 PM PDT by livius
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To: george76

Milley clearly says the plan to abandon Bagram came from the commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Austin “Scottie” Miller, in response to orders from Washington.

In response to orders from Washington...that says it all.


33 posted on 08/19/2021 12:04:34 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: george76
, in response to orders from Washington.

So it's not Miller's fault and the question remains unanswered. Who gave the order?

34 posted on 08/19/2021 12:08:16 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
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To: george76

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_S._Miller

He was a veteran of every operational force you’d want someone in that particular job to have experience with. I don’t care who he votes for, he did the time and put in the hours and years. Either he was a thirty year imposter or he was muzzled. Public hearings will tell the difference and we should demand them.


35 posted on 08/19/2021 12:19:46 AM PDT by jz638
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To: george76

The Austin-Milley Tag Team. Do you feel safe now? I’m so relieved they are going after white rage and white racism (Trump supporters and Republicans) while Muslim Islamic fanatics kill, rape, pillage just like their so called prophet did in his day.

The Defense Corporations who put these two ineffective shill bozos in positions of authority care for one thing, sales of weapon systems for a military becoming increasingly woke and ineffective and for more profit they will sell to all enemies of the United States.

Two fat pig disgraces. Our lives, our freedoms mean nothing to these two fools, only corporation profits.


36 posted on 08/19/2021 12:20:58 AM PDT by Chuck N
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To: Signalman

These Biden appointed, military idiots, morons & buffoons should be fired immediately..period!!! And Biden & Harris should be fired at the same time!!! The USA is dying!!!


37 posted on 08/19/2021 12:45:47 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: george76

It looks like chaos but it’s all planned. Everyone involved knew how it would shake down.

Taliban wins, they get the guns, they get the gold, they get the girls

China wins. Iran wins. Pakistan wins.

The West loses.

All according to plan.


38 posted on 08/19/2021 2:36:47 AM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: george76
Everything Biden touches or does turns to manure.

Unfortunately, that is best for the country in the long run because it works to expose the entire Left as incompetent.

39 posted on 08/19/2021 2:41:22 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: george76

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_S._Miller


40 posted on 08/19/2021 3:15:16 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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