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1 posted on 08/26/2021 12:22:12 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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Wasn’t this handed off to McKenzie in June ? Need to
Research this


2 posted on 08/26/2021 12:24:17 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Stolen elections have consequences.)
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Americans must instead try to reach Kabul's airport which is ringed by Taliban

This was by design. Change my mind.

3 posted on 08/26/2021 12:24:24 PM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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” Centcom Commander U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Frank McKenzie”

Fox News shows his name as being Gen Kenneth McKenzie Jr.


4 posted on 08/26/2021 12:25:32 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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Fear Not folks- the state department just announced they are ‘going to investigate’ what happened- and ‘look for who did the bombing’- and after several months investigations, we will get a report that it was the taliban that did it-


5 posted on 08/26/2021 12:25:32 PM PDT by Bob434
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What happens if they take Americans as hostages and make demands of Biden?


6 posted on 08/26/2021 12:26:29 PM PDT by FreedBird
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It's not just closing Bagram, its how Biden closed Bagram.

U.S. Troops snuck out in the middle of the night, and the Afghan Army commander at Bagram didn't know the Americans left until the generators died and there was no electricity.

https://apnews.com/article/bagram-afghanistan-airfield-us-troops-f3614828364f567593251aaaa167e623 Click to copy US left Afghan airfield at night, didn’t tell new commander

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said.

7 posted on 08/26/2021 12:26:52 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Ask Joseph Hooker about pulling back from “the high ground”. At Chancellorsville in May 1863 he did just that, retiring his larger army from commanding ground between Chancellorsville and Salem Church to a more compact but less commanding position around the Chancellor House. Fortyeight hours later his army was on its heels retreating back across the Rhappahanock River having been outflanked and outgunned by a smaller Confederate Army.

Kabul is Chancellorsville on steroids and this time we are outnumbered at least 10 to 1.


8 posted on 08/26/2021 12:30:07 PM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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I’ve never been to Afghanistan, but looking at Google earth, this armchair general surmises that the whole Kabul Valley would be relatively easy to control, by holding Bagram in the North and Kabul Airport in the South.

In fact, looking at the size and location of Bagram, by giving that up, the isolation and fall of Kabul was effectively guaranteed.


9 posted on 08/26/2021 12:32:18 PM PDT by PGR88
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“...and he did not have enough troops to hold Bagram...”

Well you should have gotten them or thrown your stars on Austin’s desk!


12 posted on 08/26/2021 12:32:55 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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General Thoroughly Modern Milley should have been arrested August 15th and shot that night.


13 posted on 08/26/2021 12:33:24 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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Where’s the voice of the UN and the NATO countries. This was a NATO mission. I’m sure our allies are as pi**** as we are.


16 posted on 08/26/2021 12:35:25 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Milley should be hanged on the spot.


23 posted on 08/26/2021 12:42:54 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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...Gen. Mark Milley said his orders were to secure the embassy and he did not have enough troops to hold Bagram...

Absolute lie. Millet testified that Bagram was of no value to the US. It's on the official record. Travis McGee has consistently posted the meme with that quote.

A whole lot of Generals and Deep Staters need to be rooted out and summarily disciplined - severely.

24 posted on 08/26/2021 12:43:52 PM PDT by Obadiah (Truth is treason in an Empire of lies.)
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Abandoning Bagram air base before withdrawing American civilians and Afghan allies was a major tactical mistake, according to senior national security experts,

If our intent is to withdraw all of our forces from Afghanistan then how do we not abandon Bagram as part of that process?

29 posted on 08/26/2021 12:53:11 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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What’s sickening is that almost all of us knew abandoning Bagram was a mistake when it happened, the supposed experts didn’t have a clue and actually thought they had months to go for civilians to get out safely. How is that possible?


33 posted on 08/26/2021 1:03:23 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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Closing Bagram fist instead of last INSURED all other aspects of the withdrawal would have Taliban interference.


34 posted on 08/26/2021 1:05:08 PM PDT by Wuli
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Shut down DC. The country and troopers would be safer.


37 posted on 08/26/2021 1:09:19 PM PDT by Chgogal (#GulagNancy is going all Cuba on Trump Supporters. #Biden lost The War on Terror.)
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Don’t we have any generals who are worth a crap anymore?


48 posted on 08/26/2021 3:18:18 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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How did 7th century savages defeat the USA without vaccines, masks, and 6 ft saves lives?


50 posted on 08/26/2021 3:41:18 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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