Posted on 09/05/2021 4:20:04 PM PDT by RandFan
During an interview with the Fox News Channel aired on Saturday’s “Fox Report,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said there were plans to re-take the Bagram Air Base, which “were briefed.” But that doing so would have required 15-20,000 in additional forces, and “would re-initiate a war with the Taliban.” Milley added that he didn’t think the military conditions warranted taking back Bagram.
Milley said, [relevant remarks begin around 6:45] “Well, if we went in and re-took Bagram, if that were to happen, if that decision were ever made, we had contingencies to do that, by the way. And those were briefed. But that’s a significant troop commitment, number one. You’re looking at 18th Airborne Corps, you’re probably looking at 10,000 or more additional forces, and then you’re going to have to secure Bagram, you’re going to have to clear Kabul, and you’re going to have to secure KIA. So, your total, you’re looking somewhere in the range of 15-20,000 additional forces. And, most importantly, you would re-initiate a war with the Taliban. Which, of course, we could do. But that’s what would have happened. So, you would have been fighting ISIS and the Taliban, and with all the casualties, etc. I know a lot of people were talking about it. But I wonder if the support would have been there if, had that been done, had that decision been made. I personally think the military conditions did not warrant that. I think the military conditions warranted what we did.”
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and just keeping Bagram until our people got out would have cost us how many troops??? Saved how many lives?
I can’t stand this guy
You don’t need to retake something that you don’t give up. There was no reason, other than political expediency to have given up Bagram Airport.
“I don’t think conditions warranted that.”
Meaning the condition of Joe’s mind.
Is it just me, but doesn’t Milley look like Mitch “The Turtle” McConnell’s younger brother?
We need military men...old school...running the military not politicians like Milley and Austin.
So what conditions would have warranted it?
We need a plan to re-take Washington, D.C.
” Gen. Milley: There Were Plans to Re-Take Bagram, I Don’t Think Conditions Warranted That “
Gen. Milley: I Don’t Think
There, fixed it
He likewise has plans to re-take Taipei, but he doesn’t think the new government will be any worse than the old one. /s
The Flowbee was more popular. At least it sucked AND IT CUT.
We need to retake the Chiefs of Joints.
Woke Milley is smoking some powerful stuff.
You are the God Damned United States of America. YOU warrant the conditions!
Milley is lying thru his false teeth.
He ignores the obvious truth (i.e., we should have simply held on to Bagram), and focuses instead on plausible deniability. In short, he's a professional liar, just like the politicians he works for...
Clearly he doesn’t understand the law of holes…
Just how stupid can you get??? If you hadn’t left, you wouldn’t have to re-take, dumbass....
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