Posted on 01/07/2023 10:31:19 AM PST by Navy Patriot
In the chaotic final days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, U.S. military analysts observed a white Toyota Corolla stop at what they believed was an Islamic State compound.
The Americans were already on edge. Three days earlier, a suicide bomber had killed scores of Afghans and 13 U.S. troops at a main gate of the Kabul airport. Now, officials had intelligence that there would be another attack there, and that it would involve a white Corolla.
They tracked the car around Kabul for the next several hours. After it pulled into a gated courtyard near the airport, they authorized a drone strike. Hours later, U.S. officials announced they had successfully thwarted an attack.
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If the US launch-button-masher is a protected class...they’ll be given a promotion.
I suspect the Blunderer in Chief said to kill someone to make it look like we were retaliating and a very demoralized military fired off a drone at the first white car they saw.
The process is called quality control
Biden had those children killed so he could say “See I killed some bad guys” and the commie media covered for him as usual
I can see why the Modern US Military “Intelligence” and CIA are so Terrified by those formidable Afghan Warriors that they need to Drone them from behind.
The drone attack was well publicized at the time along with several articles that it was a mistake. I recall thinking at the time that the Taliban, who were the CIA’s source of local intelligence, probably supplied the target to embarrass the US.
Nah, our "Smart Guys" are really smart all by themselves.
Are we sure innocents were even killed? I recall Qaddafi claiming Reagan’s air strike killed a daughter we’d never known he had.
Biden and his champions in the DOD were going to kill someone to help him save some face in this debacle.
Sad. Biden the Baby Killer.
Both Biden and the “Smart Guys” in US Intelligence and the US Military, performed and chose poorly.
Do not throw 💩 at an armed man.
Do not stand next to someone throwing 💩 at an armed man.🤨
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