Former Navy SEAL, Blackwater founder, Erik Prince, “Says US policy in Afghanistan has been ‘like a Star Trek cosplay convention’ since 2002!
The Blackwater founder blamed ‘half-baked politicians in Washington’ for the potential collapse.
Blackwater founder Erik Prince condemned the potential collapse of Afghanistan, following orders by the Biden administration for a troop withdrawal by the end of the month, saying the Taliban’s increasing resurgence is the product of 20 years of failed military policy.
Prince, a retired Navy SEAL, who served in the Middle East, told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that “half-baked politicians” in Washington are to blame for what is happening in Afghanistan.
“The Taliban never disavowed Al Qaeda, the cosplay diplomacy that’s been going on in the United States thinking they’re going to make a deal with the Taliban – whether it’s the Trump Administration, Obama administration or Biden administration, the same knuckleheads getting really bad advice at the national security level have gotten away with the same failed approach.”
Host Tucker Carlson further explained that the blame for U.S. policy failures indeed fall on domestic military officials including Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, a U.S. Army general from Massachusetts.
“Joe Biden told us is that in Afghanistan, we can rely on the Afghan security forces to keep the savages at bay. They’ve gotten billions in U.S. tax dollars over 20 years and by the way, they were trained by Mark Milley,” Carlson said. “He’s now the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff so we are good, don’t worry. Last month, let his personal stamp of approval to the Afghan security forces.”
Carlson played a clip of the general saying the Afghan forces have the capacity to defend their country, and his statement that a Taliban resurgence is not a “foregone conclusion.”
“The future of Afghanistan is squarely in the hands of the Afghan people and there are a range of possible outcomes in Afghanistan, and I want to emphasize repeatedly … a negative outcome: a Taliban automatic military takeover is not a foregone conclusion,” Milley said in the video.
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Over the last nearly 70 years I have found that a whole lot of people at the top like Milley are legends in their own minds, shameless self-promoters, did a great job at whatever because they say they did, all hat and no cattle and are just as full of chit as all of that would suggest.
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