Posted on 08/19/2021 5:46:31 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
A classified State Department cable from July suggests that Secretary of State Antony Blinken was warned that Kabul would fall into Taliban hands by the August 31 troop withdrawal deadline, a report from the Wall Street Journal on Thursday revealed’
The Wall Street Journal reported:
About two dozen State Department officials serving at the embassy in Kabul sent an internal memo to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and another top State Department official last month warning of the potential collapse of Kabul soon after the Aug. 31 troop withdrawal deadline, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the cable.
Sent via the State Department’s confidential dissent channel, the memo warned that the Taliban would quickly gain control of Afghanistan and “offered recommendations on ways to mitigate the crisis and speed up an evacuation.”
The WSJ continued:
The cable, dated July 13, also called for the State Department to use tougher language in describing the atrocities being committed by the Taliban. The classified cable represents the clearest evidence yet that the administration had been warned by its own officials on the ground that the Taliban’s advance was imminent and Afghanistan’s military may be unable to stop it.
On July 8, just five days prior to this memo warning of an Afghanistan collapse, President Biden expressly said that Kabul would not be another repeat of Saigon in 1975.
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The useless, woke SOBs knew it was coming and did absolutely NOTHING to get helpless Americans out of harms way.
The Biden Administration, especially the entire Joint Chiefs, are a total disgrace.
They ALL should be arrested/tried for sedition/treason.
Absolutely. With this incompetence, we’re fixing to see the largest hostage situation ever in the history of the United States around the 9-11 anniversary.
"U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens warned the State Department of 'unpredictable, volatile and violent' security conditions in Libya a month before the deadly assault that killed him and three other Americans..."
They can say that word never got to Biden & fire Blinken.
Interesting. So if this cable was in fact “classified” then that means someone leaked it to the WSJ. This is pretty damning stuff so it would appear that someone, probably Obozo,,has given the word that’s it time for Uncle Joe to depart.
Even McCain knew Blinken was a disaster.
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