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Terror threat is RAISED: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Mark Milley tells senators that the US homeland is now at greater risk from terror groups in Afghanistan in major blow to American efforts after 20 years of fighting in the country
dm ^ | 8/15/2021 | caralle

Posted on 08/15/2021 11:23:56 AM PDT by RummyChick

Afghanistan fell to the Taliban much faster than President Joe Biden and his top military leaders predicted, a Sunday report from Axios reveals.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley told a bipartisan group of senators during a Sunday call that a past assessment of how soon the terrorist groups will reemerge in Afghanistan will drastically speed up due to the events over the last week.

On the call with Milley, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham asked if they will revise the assessment given to Congress in June that classified a 'medium' risk of terrorist group reconstituting within two years of withdrawal.

'Yes,' Milley responded about changing the threat assessment report, according to Axios.

He also said he would be more than willing to brief senators in a classified setting on the unfolding Afghanistan situation.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; california; captainobvious; dhs; generalkrispykreme; kabukitheater; markmilley; milley; nancypelosi; nevertrumpers; nokidding; rop; taliban; terror; treason; waronterror; whiterage; wokegeneral; woketraining; xiden
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To: RummyChick

I’m sure these Afghan terror groups will be added to the terror list...and plugged in just under those vicious PTA mom’s ranting about CRT at local school board meetings.


21 posted on 08/15/2021 11:32:00 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: RummyChick

This feels like a turning point in history. Like the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. This shows America is incredibly weak, led by politics and not military, and a power vacuum is going to overtake that region of Asia which will see us out of any meaningful political discussions for likely 25 years or more.


22 posted on 08/15/2021 11:32:12 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: cgbg

Some of them should even be court-martialed.


23 posted on 08/15/2021 11:32:39 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: BrexitBen

Gee, General Milley, I thought you said it was “ white rage “.


Afghans consider themselves Aryans so there you go.


24 posted on 08/15/2021 11:33:06 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Billthedrill

“Yup, those White Supremacists in the Taliban are a pretty scary group all right. Maybe we could get them some Critical Race Theory training and they’d be all right.”

Perfect analogy.


25 posted on 08/15/2021 11:33:36 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: RummyChick

Milley is quickly becoming the worst, most smarmy, ideological front-man for the deep state we have seen yet.


26 posted on 08/15/2021 11:33:37 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: RummyChick

The Biden administration is a complete fustercluck.


27 posted on 08/15/2021 11:34:23 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: RummyChick
He should know, he trained the army that just got it's ass kicked over there and surrendered the nation completely.

But hey, ANTIFA and BLM think he's dreamy so it's all good.

28 posted on 08/15/2021 11:34:46 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: BrexitBen

Sounds like the woke general just got a wake up call.


29 posted on 08/15/2021 11:35:13 AM PDT by dblshot
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To: RummyChick

I wonder if the Taliban decides to fly to Mexico and sent its “Army” across the Rio Grande on its way to DC to seize it whether or not Biden will defend the border? Or if he’ll merely give them plane tickets from Texas to DC?


30 posted on 08/15/2021 11:35:58 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: RummyChick
...Lindsey Graham asked if they will revise the assessment given to Congress in June that classified a 'medium' risk of terrorist group reconstituting within two years of withdrawal. 'Yes,' Milley responded.. about changing the threat assessment report, according to Axios. He also said he would be more than willing to brief senators in a classified setting on the unfolding Afghanistan situation.

Yeah, Milley only wants to talk to DC 'elites'... the 'club members' of corrupt jerks running DC and an incompetent military.

Guess the American people - who pay for all this shit - are NOT invited to the party. It's time to defund DC...

31 posted on 08/15/2021 11:36:20 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's Border Plan: Dump diseased illegals in Florida & other red states to discredit DeSantis )
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To: RummyChick

I thought Homeland Security has told us that the real terrorists were Christians who refuse to mask in church or surrender their bodies to the Pharmaceutical Gods by taking the Abortion vaccines.


32 posted on 08/15/2021 11:38:28 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (I identify as fully vaccinated. )
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To: RummyChick

Does anyone know what the deal is with Biden’s eyes.

They look black in a lot of the pics and videos I have seen. Plus with his plastic surgery he almost looks like one of those reptile people that some people believe in.

He just looks so off these days


33 posted on 08/15/2021 11:38:58 AM PDT by RummyChick (R.I.P. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3974843/posts?q=1&;page=1)
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To: RummyChick

Just in time for 9/11 20th anniversary.


34 posted on 08/15/2021 11:39:00 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Republican politicans love being in office, Democrat politicians love being in power.)
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To: glimmerman70
CLOSE THE DAMN BORDER IMMEDIATELY!
35 posted on 08/15/2021 11:40:00 AM PDT by lizma2
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To: RummyChick

Milley the Woke is a predictable failure.


36 posted on 08/15/2021 11:40:48 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: lizma2

YESTERDAY!!!


37 posted on 08/15/2021 11:40:55 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: RummyChick

To paraphrase Rush’s old theme song, “Hey, ho, way to go Joe Biden.”


38 posted on 08/15/2021 11:41:42 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: RummyChick

Can’t we just send Covid tainted snacks and goodies to the Taliban?
We’ve given them everything else?


39 posted on 08/15/2021 11:42:18 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: GreyFriar

YOU are a visionary.


40 posted on 08/15/2021 11:44:36 AM PDT by Singermom
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