Posted on 08/19/2021 7:15:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As Afghanistan falls and tens of thousands of American remain trapped in Kabul, the U.S. military is sounding strange.
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REPORTER: “Do you have the capability to go out and collect Americans?”
DEFENSE SECRETARY AUSTIN: “We don’t have the capability to go out and collect up large numbers of people.” pic.twitter.com/VRb26qSYV9 — Chad Gilmartin (@ChadGilmartinCA) August 18, 2021
Here's the account from National Review:
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the U.S. will continue to evacuate all the Americans "they can" from Afghanistan, although the U.S. is currently unable to "go out and collect large numbers of people" from outside the Kabul airport.
"It's obvious we're not close to where we want to be," Austin said at a press conference at the Pentagon. "We're gonna get everyone that we can possibly evacuate evacuated, and I'll do that as long as we possibly can, until the clock runs out, or we run out of capability."
Austin admitted that U.S. capabilities to venture outside the airport are already limited, however. "I don't have the capability to go out and extend operations currently into Kabul," explained the defense secretary.
It makes one wonder what they're doing there, then.
This whole thing sounds like the return of the "Five O'Clock Follies," the God-awful press briefings of the Vietnam War era described in books such as Arnaud de Borchgrave's and Robert Moss's The Spike.
Presumably, the military has always been about "leave no man behind."  Now that they've gone woke and are no longer focused on victory, the military wokesters seem to have made an exception to the rules, and they're now more concerned with the Aug. 31 deadline than getting every last American to safety.  On time and under budget?  That sounds real weird coming from the Pentagon.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Hey, there are 57 genders. They can't get 'em all.
Jmho
Kabul wasn’t a goof
It was a divert and replace operation on American citizens..
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not bungled .... planned ...
unless you’re a coincidence theorist
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Jmho
The longer the wokesters delay, the more people will die.
I'm sure the Taliban will allow captive Americans to vote from Afghanistan, ... and they will vote Democrat.
One would have to believe they are complete bumbling idiots,in which case they all need to step down,or it was calculated.
And if it was calculated..what are you going to do about it?
Because they can do anything they want.
Wokeness and SJW-ism is a luxury. Leftism is a luxury.
When wokeness comes up against the harsh reality of the real world, it folds and runs away.
..............jeez!..............this is all so embarrassing, not to mention dangerous, for America.
Effectively, we don’t have a military at this moment. Very smart Chinese operatives with unlimited Chinese money and over recent decades and with the help of marxist democrats and MSM have rendered out military leaderless.
Excellent!
May I steal that? I would use it as a linguistic weapon against Liberal Socialist Marxists and Swampsters.
Coincidence Theorist
What trapped Americans? Are they like Bigfoot - I have not heard details of a single one.
The Obama BLM Generals are busy shipping Muslim Savages over here to destroy this country.
These Afghan savages have raped and robbed all of Europe and Riot non stop in Sweden .
They are perfect .
They are the perfect replacement population for Iranian Pres VJ and Susan Rice and the Chinese owners .
Why bother with American Whites .
Large numbers... Left unsaid was that they can (and presumably have) gone out and "collected" a few people.
This is how it is with leftists in charge - curry favor, support the agenda, and you'll be taken care of.
This exact same thing will be happening right here in the US. We already see very selective enforcement of the law. Illegal invaders are not only not prevented from coming, they're encouraged to, aided, etc. Riot, vandalize, burn, loot...as long as you've got the right slogan on your T-shirt there will be no consequences.
Rut roh- time to hit the COVID button.
It is beyond my comprehension that the United Military admits we do not have the capability. Let us disband that despicable, incompetent, embarrassment of an organization. Begin with that buffoon, Lloyd Austin.
I am a retired Army veteran. I earnestly love my Army and the military. This is not the juggernaut that could do anything in the late 1980s.
If the administration won’t or can’t protect Americans trapped in Afghanistan, why believe it will protect you when the time comes?
Americans in foreign lands trust the US to get them out when everything “goes south”.
We in the USA don’t even trust our government for that!
This is a bad remake of the great movies THE SAND PEBBLES, 55 DAYS AT PEKING, and KHARTOUM rolled into one.
Quick! Dye your hair purple, put pronouns in your bio, and make some Tik Tok videos. Then Biden will think you are worth saving!
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