US General Tells British Special Forces: Stop Rescuing People In Kabul, You're Making Us Look Bad

The Washington Examiner ^ | 08/20/21 | Tom Rogan

[matthew fuller]

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Republican tidal wave coming in the midterms

[ducttape45]

That's our "woke" military for you. If Trump was still in the White House, none of this would have ever happened.

Let's face it folks, the only way this problem is fixed is if Biden and Co are forcibly removed from office, and you know what that will mean.

[walkingdead]

We know this much to be true.

Both the British and the French are running patrols getting people out, including Americans. The Brits seem to have told their pols to go to hell about who they are to save. They will save everyone.

The Americans ARE NOT running patrols. The actual American soldier on the ground is livid. They want to go get our people, but are being stopped by command.

I believe our soldiers would ignore the commands to stand down if they knew where to go. But they do not have that intel……but the commanders sure as hell do.

Thank goodness for the Brits and the French. The French are actually acting like their WWI countrymen, very brave and willing to fight/sacrifice. The Brits are doing what their forefathers have always done. The Americans are doing that which we never do, which is nothing.

[butlerweave]

Spends more time shaping his Beret than he does doing his job

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue has told his British Army counterpart, a high-ranking field-grade officer of the British army's 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, that British operations were embarrassing the United States military in the absence of similar U.S. military operations.

This better not be true. I hope it isn't true. I'm afraid it might be, though.

[joshua c]

i hope he told him to shove it up his ass

[TLI]

A bureaucratic tug of war between the State Department, Pentagon, and White House is also disrupting evacuation operations out of Kabul. This is aggravating British, French, and other Kabul-present military authorities. I understand that these governments have been further aggravated by the failure of the White House and Pentagon to communicate adequately, or in some cases, to communicate at all, on their intentions and actions.

That is beyond any justification.

Lock them out of the process, get Majors, Captains, LTs and senior NCOs to run the ops...

AND GET THE PEOPLE OUT.

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[wetgundog]

Sod Off! you Mf’er Yankee

[Lumper20]

You mean SOCOM?

[shanover]

America may very well be further along in its rot than the Roman Empire.

[AmericanMermaid]

Fired? No. Take that general’s entire family and drop them off in Afghanistan, wrapped in bows for the Taliban. THEN tell the British to back off.

[Irish Eyes]

:)

[Not A Snowbird]

Appalling.

Thank goodness for the French and the Brits.

[matthew fuller]

His job is commander of 82nd Airborne.

[RossA]

I just hope they make sure the evacuation of Afghanis is gender-balanced. Otherwise, we will just have more anti-feminist males in the cuntry.

[butlerweave]

REMF

[NonValueAdded]

If this is true, the British press is going to go batchit crazy.

[joshua c]

pic right next to clusterfuck in the dictionary

[fidelis]

The reporter doesn't give any kind of source for this report, only "I understand that...".

I'm not saying it isn't true, but neither is it verified to the extent that one can jump all over it as if it were. Let's be adults here. At least temper our comments with something like, "If this is true..."