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Milley: 'Real possibility' terrorist groups could rebuild as soon as early spring in Afghanistan
The Hill ^
| 09/29/2021
| ELLEN MITCHELL
Posted on 09/29/2021 10:10:00 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley on Wednesday said there is “a real possibility” that al Qaeda or ISIS could reconstitute in Afghanistan as soon as early spring 2022.
Milley said the terrorist threat from Afghanistan is currently less than it was on 9/11, but that “the conditions could be set for a reconstitution of al Qaeda and/or ISIS.”
“It's a real possibility in the not too distant future, six, 12, 18, 24, 36 months, that kind of timeframe, for reconstitution of al Qaeda or ISIS,” he told lawmakers at a House Armed Services Committee hearing.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; milley; rebuild; terrorist
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A real possibility?? How reassuring.
To: ChicagoConservative27
All of Afghanistan is being governed by terrorist groups at this very moment.
Is Milley stupid or merely obtuse?
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:11:38 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
A real rocket scientist this guy ..
To: ChicagoConservative27
Convenient. Seems to be setting up the pretext ahead of time for sending thousands more troops over there to die.
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:13:29 AM PDT
by
AFB-XYZ
(Stand up, or bend over)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:14:50 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Col Frank Slade
I wonder if he’s going to eventually say “We might have to go back into Afghanistan”?
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:15:05 AM PDT
by
laplata
To: ChicagoConservative27
The are already "rebuilt". They were never "unbuilt". Afghans have been cutting off heads left and right, hanging people, raping little bacha bazi boys. But now they have received a jackpot bonus of billions of dollars of military aid from the USA.
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:15:21 AM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
I would say they never went away.
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:15:40 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
To: Col Frank Slade
A real rocket scientist this guy ..LOL. Nothing gets by this clown, does it?
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:15:48 AM PDT
by
Mark17
(USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:16:45 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
I think some of those generals aren't too happy at them rather than Biden taking the lumps for how Afghanistan ended. Seems like they told Biden there weren't enough troops, told him the country would fall if he withdrew all our troops, and he did it anyway.
So what they're doing now is essentially going public with the likely consequences of that withdrawal, implicitly blaming it on Biden.
To: ChicagoConservative27
6 months, it’s happening now.
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:17:25 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
(Let's make crime illegal again!)
To: Col Frank Slade
Yeah, tell us something we don’t know. The possibility is now assured since we left behind $85 billion in new state of the art military equipment and weapons.
Aside from the US and China, $85 billion is the most any other nation spends on defense annually. Russia comes in 4th with $79.5 billion per year. We just made the Taliban into one of the best armed nations on the planet.
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:19:59 AM PDT
by
Qui is
(Biden spews and Harris swallows)
To: BenLurkin
That can’t be true. Biden would never have taken out our troops and left out weapons if there was a risk of terrorists.
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:20:39 AM PDT
by
Maceman
(People who vote Democrat sell their lives (and ours) to the government and their souls to the Devil.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Just in time for Afghan II.
Oh, and we’ll need new Army Stuff, too.
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:21:35 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: Maceman
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:21:45 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
That can’t be true. Biden would never have taken out our troops and left our weapons if there was a risk of terrorists rebuilding.
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:22:27 AM PDT
by
Maceman
(People who vote Democrat sell their lives (and ours) to the government and their souls to the Devil.)
To: Little Ray
Except now we probably imported terror cells from Afghanistan. We’ll get hit again. Our evil overlords (I used to say stupid leaders, not anymore) will use the opportunity to take away liberty from Americans and make the enemy more powerful.
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:23:01 AM PDT
by
teevolt
To: ChicagoConservative27
Leaving a backward moslem nation does not mean you will stay out.
Look at Britain in 1842, driven out of Afghanistan, but soon had to go back in.
And the Sudan, 1885 when the Mahdi took Khartoum and massacred every Englishman and Egyptian in the city. The British had to go back in for another twenty years of wars in the Sudan.
Now we have been driven out of Afghanistan due to Biden the Incompetent, and no doubt we will soon have to go back in when new terrorists organizations arise. We will be facing our own weapons due to Biden’s incompetence.
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:25:20 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(OUT OF FB JAIL! and back on the attack. 4 hours! Now back in FB jail-again!)
To: BenLurkin
> Is Milley stupid or merely obtuse?
He’s only using the lines that got him where he is today.
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posted on
09/29/2021 10:26:16 AM PDT
by
glorgau
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