Posted on 08/22/2021 4:08:45 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
WASHINGTON — For senior military and Pentagon leaders, this week’s news was profoundly personal.
The photos and videos pouring out of Afghanistan hit a nerve, and triggered searingly vivid flashbacks to battles fought, troops lost and tears shed during their own deployments there. And in a response shaped by their memories and experiences in the war, they urged troops to check in on their buddies, talk to each other and seek help and solace if they need it.
The top two Pentagon leaders made it clear that the scenes unfolding in Afghanistan, as citizens frantically tried to get out of the country and escape the new Taliban rule, were tough for them to watch. And they knew that the visions of Afghans struggling to get on flights — so desperate that some clung to an aircraft as it lifted off — were painful for troops to see.
“All of this is very personal for me. This is a war that I fought in and led. I know the country, I know the people, and I know those who fought alongside me,” said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a retired four-star Army general who served as a commander in Afghanistan in the early years and then led U.S. Central Command overseeing the Middle East wars as his final post from 2013-16. “We have a moral obligation to help those who helped us. And I feel the urgency deeply.”
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, commanded troops in Afghanistan and has talked often about how deeply he felt the loss of each soldier under his watch.
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Instead, woke generals solve problems that do not exist. It is not a problem to figure how how to accommodate faggots and mentally ill leftists that don't know the difference between a rifle and their gun. A general's job is to defeat an enemy. That is optimized when our soldiers do not lose life or limb. That requires a great amount of thinking that cannot be distracted by woke feelings and stuff that has nothing to do with killing and breaking things.
Milley needs to do the japanese version of honor and resign in disgrace after falling on his sword..figuratively.
Not figuratively. Literally.
Well, the real leaders were saddened. The woke asswipe pretend leadrs were worried that too few of their subordinates do not believe CRT and wish their woke leaders would die a cruel death.
Are you kidding me? Austin and Millie should have resigned before carrying out that order. They didn’t. They had time to get everyone out in the months before the pullout, t could have been done quietly with little notice. They didn’t. It’s personal? Oh poor babies.
Active military commanders had better realize that this regime, Milley included, is presenting an active threat to the future of this country. The illegitimate fool who is running this country should have never been installed! He is a stain on all who have fought for the freedoms that US citizens have. Options to correct the errors of the last 10 months better be analyzed and implemented before this country is lost.
“Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, commanded troops in Afghanistan and has talked often about how deeply he felt the loss of each soldier under his watch.”
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Milley is focused on forcing CRT and full-on tranny integration onto the military. He doesn’t give two shits about losing soldiers.
Austin is the worst example of the combination of affirmative action and the Peter principle.
Any military “military leaders” resign in protest yet? Didn’t think so.
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