Posted on 08/29/2023 10:00:29 PM PDT by texas booster
Every piece of information that emerges from Biden’s shameful retreat in Afghanistan somehow manages to be worse than the last. This detail comes from a Franklin Foer article in the Atlantic based on interviews with insiders. Foer is the man you call for an establishment whitewash and that’s what this is. But even the information that slips out between the lines reveals some incredible details.
A big part of what made the Kabul evacuation so disastrous is that the Taliban were allowed to take the city.
The Biden administration sent Gen. Frank McKenzie to negotiate with the Taliban as the disaster was underway.
Gen. Frank McKenzie, who would command the botched retreat on the ground, met with the Taliban leadership in Doha. The Taliban leaders had offered to let the United States control Kabul until August 31st. McKenzie reportedly conveyed to the Taliban that they could take over Kabul so long as the U.S. was allowed to use the airport.
He bragged that, “we use the Taliban as a tool to protect us as much as possible.”
There are different versions of what happened at McKenzie’s meeting with the Taliban leader.
The Taliban had offered, ‘Why don’t you just take security for all of Kabul.’ Gen. McKenzie replied, “That was not my instruction”. The Taliban had urged, “We want you to have it,”
That would have required thousands more troops that Biden refused to authorize.
Gen. McKenzie had initially planned to tell the Taliban to stop outside the city, but in the meeting instead told the Islamic terrorism group that he had “no opinion” on them taking the city.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
McKenzie needed only the testicles to turn off coms and do what was right. He put his career before mens lives. Would YOU follow this man? Grunts say 100% NO.
Evidently only one guy...
And oops...
Michelle > Barack > Biden > General...
If they gave Biden a different color of toilet paper, he’d
have to get a quick call in to Obama.
We know he can’t think at all, so someone is calling the
shots. I still think of this as Obama’s third term.
All of Biden’s big moves wind up stupidly, and that’s how
Obama’s moves turned out.
Aye , could foresee that one coming, perfumed princes and all...
Top former US generals say failures of Biden administration in planning drove chaotic fall of Kabul
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-kabul-milley-taliban-biden-620fd2ca8187389da38ddcf3f9466fbd
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