Posted on 02/09/2022 3:47:31 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
As Taliban forces advanced across Afghanistan last summer, senior Biden administration officials failed to recognize the gravity of the situation and were reluctant to prepare an evacuation of Americans and Afghan allies, according to testimony from U.S. military officers involved in the effort.
The officers painted a grim picture of the final days of the U.S. military presence in interviews for an investigative report by the Army, describing chaotic scenes as desperate Afghans tried to enter Kabul airport to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
The evacuation of Americans and Afghans, what the military calls a “noncombatant evacuation operation,” or NEO, would have been less chaotic if senior decision makers had grasped the situation on the ground and the swift advance of the Taliban, military officers told investigators.
A service member told investigators, according to the report, that as the Taliban seized provincial capitals, “the writing was on the wall.”
“The country and its government were actively collapsing,” the service member said. The decision to launch an evacuation should have been made earlier, and “we should not have waited until every provincial capital had fallen except for Kabul.”
Asked about the report, Biden administration officials defended the handling of the evacuation and pushed back against accusations that there had not been sufficient planning or preparation for the operation.
The State Department said some statements in the report were misleading or false.
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Self absorbed incompetents.
Stands up and applauds... /s
Got them left behind Americans out of Afghanistan yet, BidenIdiot? MilleyIdiot? Hello?!?!
Three so-called writers and NBC are responsible for this so-called story. Must be “collective writing” learned from the ChiComs. Don’t believe a single word written. NBC is not to be trusted and should be driven out of business with all of its employees shipped to China.
“The State Department said some statements in the report were misleading or false...”
Deny, deny, deny... Deflect, deflect, deflect...
What cannot be denied is that Biden is the weakest, feeblest and most incompetent US President to ever hold office.
Jimmah Carter must be pissed. The mid term elections will be a doozy of a wipeout, as long as the GOP doesn’t fruck it up.
‘Deny, deny, deny... Deflect, deflect, deflect...’
right out of the Alinsky handbook
‘...senior Biden administration officials failed to recognize the gravity of the situation and were reluctant to prepare an evacuation ... .’
No kidding.
The Biden administration fails at everything, imo.
As Jen would tell you (if you would only listen) apparently a lot of people mistaken for terrified and desperate refugees trying to escape Afghanistan as events closed tightly around them, restricting their freedom to leave, were actually folks who WANTED to stay in the country. You had to look closely and maybe squint to see that.
The State Department said some statements in the report were misleading or false
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Well there you have it.
DHS needs to charge and prosecute the u.s.army for domestic terrorism!
( or are only conservative civilians guilty ?)
Photos of fighting men and women lost....
God bless them. These people and their sacrifice will not be forgotten.
OBummer’s third term...
Reads like Flashman.
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