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White House: We Prepared for ‘Low-Probability’ Afghanistan Worst-Case Scenarios
Breitbart ^ | 07/01/2023 | Ian hatchett

Posted on 07/01/2023 7:34:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby responded to claims in a State Department report that there was a failure to plan for worst-case scenarios during the planning of the withdrawal for Afghanistan by stating that President Joe Biden’s team prepared for “low-probability, high-risk worst-case scenarios” and Biden wanted this from the early going.

Host Wolf Blitzer asked, “The State Department [says] that — in this report they said that it was a chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, saying there was insufficient consideration of what it described as the worst-case scenarios. Did that failure to plan for the worst case cost lives?”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; dereliction; rout; scenarios; whitehouse; worstcase
Kirby would fit in great in north Korea
1 posted on 07/01/2023 7:34:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If he is speaking, he is lying. Every word, always.


2 posted on 07/01/2023 7:38:04 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: ChicagoConservative27

aka....we screwed up. They watched the Taliban takeover...and should have nipped it in the bud...Oh no...said Joe...I have a plan...


3 posted on 07/01/2023 7:40:58 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What “plan”?


4 posted on 07/01/2023 7:41:12 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Does anyone find it amusing that the State Department wrote this report? Self problem reporting is not credible. We just need reports from the Pentagon and White House so we have a full picture of success.

It’s important to not that not a single person has been fired due to their decision making over the Afghanistan debacle.

5 posted on 07/01/2023 7:41:56 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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To: skeeter

The plan where we let Afghanies raid the airport after we spilled the beans that we are pulling out so a few could climb on the exterior of the evacuating C-5 and fall to their death when we raise the landing gear. Yeah, that plan.


6 posted on 07/01/2023 7:44:35 AM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: skeeter

First they said it was the previous administration’s fault for committing them to a course of action and not having a good plan.

Then a report says the planning was terrible.

Now they say they had a good plan.

Regardless of any of the above, they failed miserably.


7 posted on 07/01/2023 7:46:43 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What does that even MEAN?
The word salad untossed: these incompetents assigned a “ low probability” to the disaster that occurred. And never had plans in place to deal with it if it occurred ( which it did)

Like getting people and equipment out ( or destroying weapon systems) rather than letting the taliban become one of the world’s best equipped militaries in 72 hours.

With a huge modern air base, data on every Afghan that cooperated with the USG, and thousands of American hostages to boot.

FAIL in intel and planning across all agencies.


8 posted on 07/01/2023 7:51:09 AM PDT by silverleaf (It's not propaganda just because you disagree with it. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Translation: “We prepared for the worst but didn’t think it would be nearly that bad.”

A lie and a lame effort at saving face.


9 posted on 07/01/2023 7:52:46 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Soul of the South

Trump had the right plan but Brandon’s administration was not about to prove how successful it would be by implementing it. So they winged a different one.


10 posted on 07/01/2023 7:55:31 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He must be the door to door vaccuum sales boy for Kirby vacs.

He does suck up a lot for Biden.


11 posted on 07/01/2023 7:58:43 AM PDT by dforest
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“John Kirby responded to claims in a State Department report that there was a failure to plan for worst-case scenarios during the planning of the withdrawal for Afghanistan by stating that President Joe Biden’s team prepared for “low-probability, high-risk worst-case scenarios””

OK. They planned and still failed. Even worse.


12 posted on 07/01/2023 8:05:36 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: FlyingEagle

Yah, the WHouse prep work is packaging a list of lies for when the fan spins up.


13 posted on 07/01/2023 8:13:19 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I don’t think they fired anyone because no one really prepared a plan. It was like three-hundred people were told not to worry about anything and just prepared for a normal day in Afghanistan to occur.


14 posted on 07/01/2023 8:43:00 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They just can’t stop lying. A blind guy could see what was coming when Biden and DoD closed Bagram a month prior.


15 posted on 07/01/2023 9:19:26 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In other words, they no longer teach Risk Management at the Academies. Just flipping wonderful.


16 posted on 07/01/2023 9:54:01 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The Democrat Party - Dumbing Down America Since 1965.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BIDEN would screw up a fire DRILL.


17 posted on 07/01/2023 11:00:29 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All
Oh bull. A twelve year old would have a more effective withdrawal strategy. It’s not rocket science.

This jerk woke up one morning and told the Pentagon to pull out of Afghanistan “right now!”

18 posted on 07/01/2023 12:00:23 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Biden’s Afghan event was directed by political operatives who always did their term paper at the last minute. In the artificail world of the university it worked.

If their education had been similar to the real world Afghan would have been different.


19 posted on 07/01/2023 12:12:47 PM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h g)
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