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Biden’s Botched Bug Out
American Thinker.com ^ | August 29, 2021 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 08/29/2021 2:40:47 AM PDT by Kaslin

This week we were treated to a bloody horror show at Kabul Airport and a preposterous performance (a full day late) by a President who claimed responsibility and then quickly proceeded to shun it, blaming everyone else . As commander in chief, he was responsible for the disastrous consequences of the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan by a plan only an idiot would have conceived or endorsed. What followed were continued lies from the Department of State, General Mark Milley, and probably the Department of Defense. Only individual Americans stood fast to preserve our tattered honor.

The Biden Bug Out Plan was exactly the opposite of the plan President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had crafted. In that plan, our well-fortified base at Bagram, some 40 miles from Kabul, was to be the last thing shuttered. In Biden’s plan, it was the first. He had our troops turn off the lights and leave in the middle of the night without warning to the Afghani government, doubtless encouraging the rapid Taliban advance to Kabul. The President blamed the military for this decision, and General Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, seemed to concur, although even as he fell on his sword there was wiggle room, for he predicated it on the need to get the troops down to about 600 or 700, a decision only Biden could have made. Essentially a military briefer conceded this by asserting the mission to withdraw was Biden’s and the emphasis on giving priority to protecting the embassy was also his. The Wall Street Journal explains how disastrous this nonsensical order of departure was.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; dereliction; joebiden; kabul; rout; surrender; taliban

1 posted on 08/29/2021 2:40:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
From Clarice's story:

Also left behind are an untold number -- certainly in the thousands -- of Americans, green card holders, allied civilians, and Afghans who aided us and our NATO allies. They are being systematically butchered, with the aid of biometric records of those whom the jihadis are targeting. A huge potential hostage situation awaits. The administration concedes that we had already given the Taliban lists of people we wanted to give safe passage to. If that weren’t enough to target them for death, the biometric records sealed it.

Really, really bad, but worse to come:

Nawazuddin Haqqani, one of the brigade commanders over the Al Isha unit, bragged in an interview with Zenger News that his unit is using US-made hand-held scanners to tap into a massive US-built biometric database and positively identify any person who helped the NATO allies or worked with Indian intelligence.

So the very good relationship between India and the US built up by the previous administration will take a severe hit. and of course the Pakistani intelligence is assisting the Talibans.

Some links that Clarice was good to provide:

EXCLUSIVE: First-Ever Interview With Terror Leader Who’s Hunting Americans and Allies in Afghanistan

ISIS-K, the terror group that killed US troops in Kabul, and its complicated relationship with the Taliban

2 posted on 08/29/2021 3:59:19 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Kaslin
See also: The curious U.S. military alliance with the Taliban

The real question is how much is incompetence, and how much is treason?

3 posted on 08/29/2021 4:03:19 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: upchuck
PING!
4 posted on 08/29/2021 4:04:31 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: ScaniaBoy

Deep State doesn’t hire the front office types for brains, but they’re not the ones calling the shots.

This is NOT incompetence.

But is IS evil.


5 posted on 08/29/2021 4:08:14 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla
One or maybe two big FU’s I could ascribe to incompetence, but a whole series... I tend to agree with you.

(But then it is time for several impeachments, court martials and eventually a series of hangings.)

PS PDJT was not faultless, but most of his errors were due to bad advice and deceit by faithless RINOS. However, one error he could have avoided. HRC should have been prosecuted and thrown into jail. That would have acted as a deterrent to a number of Deep State collaborators.

6 posted on 08/29/2021 4:19:47 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: ScaniaBoy

She doesn’t even touch on the abandoning of all our hardware and arms. Probably left it for another article. So much to criticize. We are led by buffoons.


7 posted on 08/29/2021 5:06:17 AM PDT by refermech
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To: ScaniaBoy

“One or maybe two big FU’s I could ascribe to incompetence, but a whole series...”

Now the Washington Post and the Asia-Times are reporting that Biden has committed to withdrawing all US troops from Iraq, by the end of the year - a la Afghanistan - which will fulfill a key foreign policy objective of Iran.

There is something very seriously wrong with this President - which is probably the understatement of the century.


8 posted on 08/29/2021 5:33:42 AM PDT by RAldrich
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To: Kaslin

This was no accident or example of stupidity. Biden’s CCP and muslim brotherhood handlers know exactly what they are doing.


9 posted on 08/29/2021 6:05:56 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: ScaniaBoy; 5th MEB; Albion Wilde; American in Israel; bitt; BlackAdderess; bobfeland; burghguy; ...
Thanks for the ping ScaniaBoy.


Clarice Feldman ping.

If you'd like to be on or off the Clarice Feldman ping list, usually issued only on Sunday morning, please click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.

10 posted on 08/29/2021 8:05:16 AM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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To: mewzilla

It IS the #JihadJunta.


11 posted on 08/29/2021 5:20:19 PM PDT by Shady (Prince Andrew is the Prince no more...And who killed Ashli Babbitt? )
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To: Kaslin
Biden’s Botched Bug Out Presidency.

There, fixed it!

12 posted on 08/29/2021 6:37:22 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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