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Marine officer calls out senior military leaders following U.S. fatalities in Afghanistan
POLITICO ^ | Aug 27 | POLITICO

Posted on 08/27/2021 10:19:21 AM PDT by RandFan

An active-duty Marine officer ripped into military leaders in a social media video Thursday after an ISIS attack outside a Kabul airport left at least 13 U.S. troops and more than 100 Afghans dead.

In the roughly five-minute video, Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller upbraided military brass over the way the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has been carried out and called for them to take ownership for the chaotic events of the past few weeks.

“Did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ‘Hey, it's a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone’?” Scheller, in uniform, said in the video.

“Did anyone do that? And when you didn't think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, ‘We completely messed this up’?”

Scheller said that "potentially all those people did die in vain” if senior military leaders are not held to account.

"Without that, the ... higher military ranks are not holding up their end of the bargain,” he said. “I have been fighting for 17 years. I am willing to throw it all away to say to my senior leaders, ‘I demand accountability.’"

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To: RandFan

Well if nothing is done regarding the leadership right now...

How many will follow future orders of the administration of dementia Joe?

Woke or Not


41 posted on 08/27/2021 10:50:26 AM PDT by EBH (Republics are only meant for a good and moral people. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: blueunicorn6
Yep...The Billy Mitchells, Dugout Doug MacArthurs, George Pattons and H.G. Rickovers have been systematically removed from the services.
42 posted on 08/27/2021 10:50:32 AM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground - Mencken)
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To: RandFan

Safe to say Lieutenant-Colonel Scheller will never become Colonel Scheller.


43 posted on 08/27/2021 10:51:05 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: GOPJ

Milley and Austin are no doubt waiting until the retreat is complete to speak. They’ll declare victory then.


44 posted on 08/27/2021 10:51:42 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: RandFan

He should be promoted to Five Stars. The disgusting leadership and Woke BS coming from the Pentagon is unforgivable and unacceptable.


45 posted on 08/27/2021 10:52:07 AM PDT by Chgogal (#GulagNancy is going all Cuba on Trump Supporters. #Biden lost The War on Terror.)
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To: RandFan

All the good generals resigned during Obama’s reign. Their are no good generals left. All we have is a bunch of politicians in uniform. Sad.


46 posted on 08/27/2021 10:52:15 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: lodi90

Yes, it will be interesting to see his comparative future to Vindman.


47 posted on 08/27/2021 10:52:17 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: RandFan

This is the man that I said no longer existed. I am glad to see he is still alive.

He has ruined his military career, but he can hold his head up. I hope he moves to our little town and runs for city council. We need him and four more just like him.


48 posted on 08/27/2021 10:52:53 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: DoodleDawg

Safe to say Lieutenant-Colonel Scheller will never become Colonel Scheller.


Doesn’t sound like he wants to be.


49 posted on 08/27/2021 10:53:00 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
..how many Americans are still in Afghanistan?"

About 2000 or so, reading back over the past weeks news items...

Doesn't matter...
They are all toast... Discarded by our communist masters...

In the north of Afghanistan the Taliban showed, recently, how they treat their prisoners...
Females between 12 and 30 are converted to sex slaves for the troops...
All the rest were lined up and shot...
The menfolk were burned or decapitated...

You can imagine what they have in store for all the Christians and/or Americans left in Afghanistan...

We'll be seeing this on Taliban TV for the next year or so...

Basically, the American people do not care... They have the pandemic to worry about...

50 posted on 08/27/2021 10:54:00 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: Husker24

He’ll make money on the speech circuit now. CPAC and such. He was probably counting on going viral.


51 posted on 08/27/2021 10:54:32 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Our personnel have been dying in vain in that place since the about 2004-05ish. I got there in ‘02, shortly after the SF teams had dropped bombs EVERYWHERE killing as many of the bag guys as they could. Those f*ckers wouldn’t pop their heads out of a hole and the people were relatively against them.

Life went on and the pendulum shifted. Lots of folks in Afghanistan wanted the Taliban back. Much like many Iraqi’s, especially the older ones, want Saddam back. People knew what the boundaries were. If you crossed them, you were dealt with. Other than that, they pretty much left you alone. These people aren’t smart. They can’t think for themselves like most Americans can, although that seems to be waning.

And now we have folks, some I’m very close to, wanting and bragging about the interpreters and others that “helped” the US coming to the US or trying to get them here. These folks aren’t some interpreter that works at the UN or some other embassy in the world. Broken English. No job skills. And will do nothing but collect checks, get government housing and the women will start popping out US citizens as soon as possible. They’re not much different than the 6th Century savages outside Kabul Airport with AKs.

But, here we are. We lost 13 Americans for NO REASON, the other day.

According to the Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point, in January 2021 the Taliban number around 60,000.

According to Wikipedia(i know, i know) the male population in Afghanistan is around 15,000,000. A sizable number of that are fighting age males. But, for arguments sake, lets say that 5% might be inclined to do something about the Taliban, Al Queda, ISIS-K. That’s 750,000 men.

The leader of a resistance movement to the Taliban has vowed to never surrender but is open to negotiations with the new rulers of Afghanistan, according to an interview published by Paris Match on Wednesday.
Ahmad Massoud, the son of legendary Afghan rebel commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, has retreated to his native Panjshir valley north of Kabul along with former vice-president Amrullah Saleh.
“I would prefer to die than to surrender,” Massoud told French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy in his first interview since the Taliban took over Kabul. “I’m the son of Ahmad Chah Massoud. Surrender is not a word in my vocabulary.”

They estimate he has about 9000 fighters willing to take on the Taliban. And that he needs supplies, weapons and ammo.

The ANA/ANP dropped or handed over lots of stuff to the Taliban over the course of the last month or so.

Wonder how much help he’d get if 750,000 Afghani men showed up to join him. Hmmmmm


52 posted on 08/27/2021 10:55:14 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: GOPJ

Does’t ANYTHING come in pink!?

This hair will never do.

Sergio, go there work.

That’s an order soldier.

- General Milley


53 posted on 08/27/2021 10:55:20 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Only a fool plays a rigged game by the rules)
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To: Magnum44
Found the YT video:

Marine Corps Lt. Col. to SECDEF/CJCS/Combatant Commander: We Demand Accountability!

54 posted on 08/27/2021 10:56:18 AM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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To: pepsi_junkie

How many of those troops will soon find themselves being courtmartialed or chaptered out of the military for refusing the shot?

We are in for some really tough times folks.

And to think, sadly, that its only be caused by a small group of people. And they’re being allowed to get away with it.


55 posted on 08/27/2021 10:57:10 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: RandFan

56 posted on 08/27/2021 10:58:03 AM PDT by knarf (qa)
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To: DesertRhino

Urban legend or not, the story proves a point.


57 posted on 08/27/2021 10:58:12 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: RandFan

Sadly, this guy will get the Terry Lakin treatment. Dare go against the orthodoxy and you get to go to prison.

true story. A friend of mine hired my the teenage daughter to do some transcription work. After her first day I asked her about it. She said it was a prison diary from some Army guy who was also a doctor.

Incredulously, I said “You’re doing Terry Lakin’s prison diaries?”

I didn’t realize it but my friend was part of his defense team and the diaries were being put on their website.


58 posted on 08/27/2021 10:59:14 AM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Dr. Pritchett

No. Not at all. Did I say that? I went back and read my initial comment. And do yourself a favor, don’t confuse the command staff/flag officers we all see on tv with the folks down the ranks. Are they all Chesty Puller’s and Patton’s? Nope. But there are quite a few good ones.

The good ones always leave because they find it hard to compete with the Vindman’s of the world.

But, there are quite a few that learn to keep their heads down, get their 20 and then bounce. It doesn’t take long to get that 20 and the retirement.

But they usually know, at around the 12-15 year mark that they’re not going anywhere. Stay quiet. Don’t make any waves. Get to 20.


59 posted on 08/27/2021 11:03:18 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: jeffersondem

This is the man that I said no longer existed. I am glad to see he is still alive.


There are a more brave patriots like him. The Space Command officer comes to mind.


60 posted on 08/27/2021 11:17:45 AM PDT by lodi90
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