Posted on 08/18/2021 4:01:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Sec. Austin and Gen. Milley's behavior led to the collapse of the Afghanistan military and government.
We saw Joe Biden's horrible press conference. Sixty-nine percent of American disapprove of how he handled the recent debacle in Afghanistan. Who else was involved in this disaster? The first domino to fall in Afghanistan was caused by secretary of defense Lloyd Austin and chairman of Joint Chief of Staff General Mark Milley. According to the AP on 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.
The Afghan commander of Bagram Airfield tried to put a good face on the sudden withdrawal in the middle of the night, but it set the stage for the collapse of the Afghan military and the Taliban blitzkrieg in Afghanistan. Suddenly, the Afghan military that trusted us realized there would be no orderly withdrawal of American military forces. They could not even count on the Americans to leave the electricity on for the Afghan military as the American vanished into the night. The dominoes started falling quickly and soon led to Saigon 2.0 in Kabul.
Timelines are important. On June 23, 2021, less than two weeks before deserting our Afghan allies in the middle of the night, Sec. Austin and Gen. Milley testified before Congress. U.S. rep. Seth Wilbur Moulton, former Marine Corps officer, specifically asked both Sec. Austin and Gen. Milley about evacuation plans. Rep. Moulton made several poignant comments:
As we withdraw from Afghanistan, we have not seen an operational plan to save our brave Afghan partners and allies.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Go woke and go broke...or worse.
They should be fired and would be if there was any competence in the govn…
Idi Amin, Jr and “Silly Milley” should end up in Leavenworth!
These two military failures, USA Traitor/Turnocats, along with failures Biden & Harris should be fired today...”PERIOD”!!! Wake up American voters...your magnificent nation Republic is dying...thanks to these “Obama” morons, buffoons & idiots!!!
This is Star Wars material.
Spoiler: it wasn't Trump.
Spoiler 2: SJW activist and part time General Mark Milley said to congress last month that they didn't need it anymore.
IMO these two jerks who don’t have the wisdom to be door men are not the worse ones responsible for the debacle in Afghanistan. The seeds for that were sown long ago by the prior people who held these positions and further fostered by those who garnered their stars and eagles. They are now long retired and plundering the defense industry raking in huge salaries as corporate officials or lobbyists.
This is not too dissimilar to a less important issue highlighted in A Bridge Too Far. Individuals who saw there was a problem in discounting enemy strength in Belgium were shunted off, disregarded, or there careers ended because they warned against what Montgomery wanted.
Here against every piece of advice it was lets move along beginning with the national building idea fostered by Bush and his staff. Then it became kick the can down the road.
Miley is the “Fool of Kabul”.
I wish David Hackworth was still with us. His insight and commentary on this debacle would be priceless.
Are you sure that is him? Those are not American troops, they are Filipino.
yes
We would remember that the Taliban weren’t strong (although a recent influx of captured American weaponry may have changed that).
Biden stabbed the Afghans in the back by denying them their own air cover and by making it clear that they were on their own. The writing was on the wall when the lights went off at Bagram.
The article mentions a ‘Blitzkrieg’. No! The taliban victories were surrenders arranged by phone.
Thanks. He loohs looks ridiculous.
He does. He was in the Philippines on July 30th.
Then Gen. Austin was in command of the Iraqi drawdown. He knows what is involved bugging out. This is just pure incompetence. In the private sector you get fired for this. Everyone involved in this cluster needs to be fired, starting the Biden and Camel Toe and all the way down to the lowest decision maker, intel analyst that provide bogus advice and intelligence (I hate using that last word because there is so little of it, as in IQ.)
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