Posted on 08/23/2021 6:49:51 AM PDT by george76
To the surprise of only the Biden administration and its top brass, the Taliban retook .. Afghanistan .. a spectacular failure
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It’s easy to blame the craven civilian leadership that pushed us into this morass, starting with the naïve and weak-willed George W. Bush; the feckless Barack Obama, and now the senile Joe Biden
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During the Civil War, Lincoln cycled through general after general until he found Ulysses S. Grant, who frequently rejected his commander in chief’s tactical suggestions, for which Lincoln was ultimately grateful.
In World War I, the American Commander “Black Jack” Pershing ignored British and French insistence that his men serve in a supporting role. Under Pershing, the US First Army smashed through the German defenses at Saint-Mihiel in September 1918; two months later, the war was over.
With America reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Army and Navy came up with an audacious plan to attack Tokyo, and in April of 1942, Jimmy Doolittle’s B-25s were raining bombs on the Japanese homeland.
By contrast, the Failure Generals in Iraq and Afghanistan such as David Petraeus, Jim Mattis, Stanley McChrystal, and Mark Milley .. have consistently failed ... fretting about “white rage” in the ranks.
Just last month, Milley was airily dismissing reports of an imminent Taliban victory in Afghanistan,
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another American fighting man, the great George S. Patton Jr. — who won his stars on the battlefield and not in the halls of Congress — who best exemplified how winners think.
Ordered in March 1945 to bypass the historic city of Trier in the Third Army’s lightning thrust into Germany because it was likely to take at least four divisions, Patton seized the town anyway: “Have taken Trier with two divisions. Do you want me to give it back?”
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“In World War I, the American Commander “Black Jack” Pershing ignored British and French insistence that his men serve in a supporting role. “
They wanted then to be used as replacements piecemeal to serve under they abysmal British and French generals.
Utterly immoral, and not supported by the facts. The experienced British generals gave us late 1917 Ypres and other battles such as Flanders in 1918 that killed well over a quarter million allies at a whack while barely changing the lines from 1915.
British Generals “experience” was feeding soldiers into a meat grinder and being feted as heroes.
You’re speaking of ‘generals’, and I’m talking about where the troops were deployed at - ie., integrated with experienced UNITS, and being able to take advantage of that knowledge.
Glorification of generals is a bad habit that has yielded no benefit and endless misery. The only reason they’re ‘feted as heroes’ is because they ended up on the ‘winning side’.
Many years ago I worked at the Pentagon in Communications.
Way too many self important “generals” even then.
Worthless lot and I am sure there are more of the stoopids now.
“During the Civil War, Lincoln cycled through general after general until he found Ulysses S. Grant, who frequently rejected his commander in chief’s tactical suggestions, for which Lincoln was ultimately grateful.”
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Huge difference though...Lincoln wanted people who WOULD fight. All of the administrations from Bush jr. forward were more concerned with policing than a ruthless subjugation of the Taliban.
For the record I did not (nor do) support a nation building project in Afghanistan, but it should have been used temporarily as a platform to kill Bin-Laden and nothing else. We spent 20 years there because we thought we could put it on the path to becoming post-war Germany or Japan....utter foolishness.
They are all woke, all the time. Men without chests.
Most people operating in bureaucracies will do what they have to
do to KEEP their jobs, not necessarily properly DO their jobs.
It’s not that they don’t care it’s that they don’t know how!
Maybe the losers are worried white people are smart enough to see them for what they are...
So, once we announced we were pulling out, the US contractors got out,
Yes, the Afghan military begged the US not to pull the contractors or to conduct emergency training for their own personnel.
Biden refused.
Yes, the Afghan military begged the US not to pull the contractors or to conduct emergency training for their own personnel.
Biden refused.
In essence, we grounded the Afghan Air Force, leaving the Afghan Army with no air cover
Well no. Even they thought it would take more than 11 days - though they were probably not taking into account all of the different ways the Biden Administration had us undercut the Afghanis.
Damn Gen Hank Taylor won’t give us the number of AMERICANS WHO GOT OUT....
Just how many ‘people’... meaning afghans...
Hopefully a few Americans got out.
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