Posted on 09/06/2021 5:22:56 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Sen. Hagerty: 'We have someone not even qualified for a security clearance at the center of Biden's incompetently planned withdrawal''
Pentagon strategy chief Colin Kahl is in the hot seat over his role in the Biden administration's bungled Afghanistan withdrawal, four months after Senate Republicans unanimously opposed his nomination and warned that his appointment would be disastrous for national defense policy.
Kahl, the civilian head of policy planning at the Department of Defense and third highest ranking department official, has been a key player in planning for the Afghanistan withdrawal and the day-to-day policy decisions on the ground. While several Biden administration officials have been publicly defending the president’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, Republican foreign policy leaders say Kahl is the behind-the-scenes player largely responsible for the botched evacuation of Afghanistan and decision to leave Americans stranded in the country. The GOP lawmakers, who also have criticized Secretary of State Antony Blinken and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, now say their fears about Kahl's lack of fitness for the role are coming to pass.
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R., Tenn.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,said, "Kahl should never have been nominated by the president or confirmed by the Senate" and should be held responsible for the Biden administration's failures in Afghanistan, including for the hundreds of Americans who have reportedly been left behind. "In Kahl, we have someone not even qualified for a security clearance at the center of President Biden's incompetently planned and disorderly withdrawal from Afghanistan."
Sen. Marco Rubio said, "The entire White House national security team is being bullied by a band of medieval terrorists. They are overseeing America's decline, and it is an absolute disgrace."
"Mr. Kahl's inability to accurately assess these events almost defies probability," said Cotton.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
Yes it does defy probability. How can so many incompetent people be gathered in one administration? Almost looks planned.
Pick someone as a scapegoat. This was on biden and the people know it. Doing this won’t help your ratings biden..
Lining up a nobody to take the heat for Jao Bai Den.
“ the GOP should look in the mirror to see who
ruined America, and then commit ritual suicide
for their evil sedition and treason.”
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This comment deserves to be repeated. You are correct.
The USA would be enjoying tremendous growth and peace right now, had the Republicans not colluded with China, CIA, DOJ, Democrats, DNC and Soros’s massive Marxist groups to destroy our sovereignty and superpower status and freedom.
Even if we have to vote for a Democrat to achieve removing our party’s traitors from office, it will be worth it. Republican traitors are far worse in the long run than Democrats in the short run.
Good try Republicans, blame someone with no authority to make and initiate a decision in the treasonous surrender to the Taliban. The buck stops with Jobama, he ordered it. Now impeach the traitor!
Sure blame the number 3 guy! Who put this dope up,who defended his appointment? The big shots Austin and Milley agreed with him? What a crock the whole crew needs to go including Senile Joe
There goes the GOP, giving disaster Joe a free pass and letting him off the hook by blaming others
Exactly. One low level guy writes a policy paper that generals and presidents then follow robotically. They had to. It was in the procedure.
Or, when the generals and presidents have been caught with their breeches around their ankles the call goes out for some low level guy they can throw to the wolves. Distracts the monkeys in the press and he’s low level enough it won’t even hurt his career. Its like a win-win.
Operations of this magnitude require planning and preparation and training. Unfortunately Milley and the woke brigades at the Pentagon spend too much time developing woke transformation strategies That is a a damning condemnation and bordering on criminal
"The Senate confirmed Colin Kahl to be the undersecretary of defense for policy in a 49-45 party-line vote Tuesday....
Senate Republicans have been unified in their opposition to Kahl, who was a vocal supporter of the hot-button Iran nuclear deal. They seized on his history of tweets attacking Republican lawmakers to argue he lacks the judgment and temperament for the job....
“I can’t recall a single nominee for the top DoD position in the past 40 years who didn’t garner at least one vote from the other party,” [Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla.] said. “We need nominees who will work with members on both sides of the aisle; those members have to trust that person in return.”
But Democrats accused Republicans of waging a partisan proxy fight over the deal and Biden’s plan to rejoin it. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I., has said Kahl was subjected to a “smear campaign.”
Six Republicans and one Democrat missed that vote.
Absent for the confirmation vote were Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell, and Republican Sens. Roy Blunt, Rand Paul and Mike Rounds ― with Cramer and Shelby.
Earlier in the day, the National Republican Senatorial Committee painted Kahl as “just another product of Joe Biden’s conveyor belt of radical, unqualified nominees.” Senate Armed Services Committee member Rick Scott, R-Fla., chairs the NRSC.
Hopefully they got all the evil white supremacists retrained.
That’s the important thing…
Seriously, someone needs to metaphorically swing for this.
“ This is a fig leaf for the Republicucks ineptitude.”
The Republicans unanimously opposed his nomination, please explain what more they could have done.
Pentagon strategy chief Colin Kahl - another name to add to the list of civilian and military kakistocrats who should be sentenced to become one-time rope testers.
“The Republicans unanimously opposed his nomination, please explain what more they could have done.”
The GOP abdicated their responsibilities.
They backstabbed their voters.
They helped sedition.
They attacked the ELECTED President for China.
The GOP is beyond scum.
RINOs are the reason for the woke, clown world we now live in.
Vote out every RINO who must face a primary in 2022 and replace them with conservative patriots, especially in the state legislatures that handed the Steal to Potato Joe on a platter by their refusal to enforce voter ID. They put their petty hatred of Trump above their country.
Don't sit out 2022. Don't let them waltz back into office without a fight. Don't let them get away with their part in the 2020 Steal. Make the RINOs start their own party. Make them go through the arduous signature process to get on the ballot in all 50 states. Make them build up a party infrastructure from nothing.
If everyone with an (R) after their name was a conservative patriot who would fight like Trump, then the Republican party would be unstoppable. Let's make it happen.
So ‘Republicans’ find the little mid-level guy to fall on the sword and cover for the LEADERSHIP.
Typical.
Team Biden filled civilian DOD roles with Democrat party political operatives. These are folks that do not have the skill set for the jobs they were given. They were chosen for their party loyalty.
he is an idiot - but look how many other idiots ranked above him in the decision-making process, passing thru Austin Milley and of course the ‘CIC’ Joey boy. that’s quite a pyramid of stupidity.
Don’t sit out 2022. Don’t let them waltz back into office without a fight. Don’t let them get away with their part in the 2020 Steal. Make the RINOs start their own party. Make them go through the arduous signature process to get on the ballot in all 50 states. Make them build up a party infrastructure from nothing.
If everyone with an (R) after their name was a conservative patriot who would fight like Trump, then the Republican party would be unstoppable. Let’s make it happen.
The vote to certify the stolen election and disenfranchise us all was 93-7 in the GOP controlled Senate. No sitting GOP Senator is worthy of a vote in 2022. It’s that simple.
“Biden’s scape goat. The buck stops at pedojoe.”
As far as strategizing is concerned, it’s ridiculous to blame that on a single person. Biden, on the other hand, listened to all of the ideas and picked one (perhaps his very own).
It was an obvious poor pick. Even us laymen are able to see it’s flaws.
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