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 ...
“He should be court-marshalled.”
Yes.
Stolen elections have consequences.
“I was detained in Guantanamo bay camp for several years”, says one of the Taliban leader inside the presidential palace in #Kabul. #Afghanistan
O, rly?
Wonder who paid for his flight back to Afghanistan.
Couldn’t see that one coming.......
Umm yeah. People are pouring across the border. How many are terrorist.
Of course, and that is what must be stopped if the US is serious about terrorism. Seems like those in power in the US have a different agenda.
I am SHOCKED and OUTRAGED that all of us WHITE, IGNORANT, RACIST, REDNECK, RELIGIOUS, CONSERVATIVE, BIBLE THUMPING, CONSTITUTION WAVING, GUN OWNING, INSURECTIONIST AMERICANS are no longer considered the greatest threat to America.
How dare this SWINE MILEY downgrade our threat in this manner, doesn’t he know WE ARE BAD?
Destroy American war on Terror and Arm Iran with the layest Air and land hardware to wipe out Israel.
Great day for Pres VJ and Susan Rice
both Jew hating sociopaths .
Milley needs to go hang his head, not raise the panic level
Check this out: https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/08/15/woke-gen-mark-milley-in-july-afghan-security-forces-have-the-capacity-to-defend-their-country/
from link:
‘Woke’ Gen. Mark Milley, in July:
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told reporters less than four weeks before the Taliban entered Kabul that the local military was fully capable of defending Afghanistan from the insurgent Islamic terrorist militia.
Wait, I thought American White supremisist are the greatest threat.
In the next few DAYS??? https://t.co/Zt6R3JlfSF— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) August 15, 2021
Afghanistan? That’s nothing. I understand there is a nun in a catholic school in Ness City Kansas telling her fourth grade students that masks don’t stop COVID infections. That’s far more serious, and needs to be stopped. We’re sending airborne troops there now.
What did they expect to happen?
That the Taliban would play nice?
greater than the toxic patriot white male??? unpossible...
Milley, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken
Rest easy.
America is in good hands.
It has to do with 'priorities', you know.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.