Posted on 08/18/2021 8:00:16 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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President Biden (snip) “I trust the capacity of the Afghan military, who is better trained, better equipped, and more competent in terms of conducting war,” the president declared from the White House’s ornate East Room on July 8.
A few days later, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff gave a less rosy assurance, but disputed claims a Taliban takeover was inevitable. “A negative outcome – a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan – is not a foregone conclusion," Army Gen. Mark Milley told reporters. “…I don’t think an end game is yet written.”
But inside U.S. intelligence agencies, the Pentagon and the independent U.S. watchdog for Afghanistan, the warning lights were blinking red that the Afghan Army that the United States spent 20 years training and tens of billions of dollars equipping had a glass jaw that could be crushed easily, according to Just the News interviews with a dozen U.S. officials and a review of several hundreds of pages of memos and reports.
John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and a lifelong Democrat, explicitly warned that Afghans couldn’t even handle their own re-fueling operations, their soldiers were prone to defections and allegiances to tribes over command structure, and their fighter jets were far less ready than the American military commanders had portrayed.
“Five of the seven airframes experienced decreases in readiness in the last month of the quarter [June],” Sopko wrote in one warning report days after Biden and Milley made their assurances. “This coincided with the Taliban offensive and the withdrawal of U.S. and Coalition forces, including aircraft-maintenance contractors. The combined effect of the two appeared to reduce aircraft readiness rates.”
You can read that report here
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Army Gen. Mark Milley told reporters. “…I don’t think an end game is yet written.”
He was waiting for the Taliban to write the ending.
Treasonous pig.
Glass jaw? They were cowards. At least the ARVN fought for 2 years before donning their uniforms. Afghan was so corrupt, their president fled with $160m in cash.
Intelligence agency leak to CYA. The simple fact of the atter is Biden owns this along with the incompetent Intelligence and DOD and State upper echelons he appointed, all of whom need to be fired.
Intelligence CYA leakers going full Kamala “don’t pin this shit on me!”
Chuckee, I agree that the IC constantly covers their collective asses, but this report came out before this cluster in Afghanistan. Biden knew ahead of time. Regular reports like this go back to 2015. It is not a one time thing.
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They only have two goals. Country should be woke and broke.
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>>all of whom need to be fired.
If they had any honor, they’d commit ritual seppuku. Up to and including Biden. And the people running him.
The problem here is not that they misled the American people, per se.
The big issue is that they deceived themselves and put over 10,000 American citizens at serious risk of life and limb.
And while I think both are terrible, I think US citizens in Afghanistan who believed their bullsh!t story constitutes a crime having been committed.
Criminals in the white house.
How do you miss a buildup of the enemy like this?
I was reading about the attacks as they happened yet there was zero attacks on the enemy. They waltzed in thanks to Biden and obama and the woke military non leaders.
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