Milley: No One Has Been Punished for Afghanistan Ending, But Looking for ‘Pound of Flesh’ Is ‘Wrong Idea’

Breitbart ^ | 10/02/2023 | IAN HANCHETT

[ChicagoConservative27]

During interviews with NBC News and NPR released on Monday, recently-retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley stated that no one has been punished for how the war in Afghanistan ended, but “where people are looking for a pound of flesh. I think they’re looking in the wrong idea here.”

During the interview with NBC, “Nightly News” host Lester Holt asked, “Has anyone been held accountable [for] what went wrong with the Afghanistan withdrawal?”

Milley responded, “If you mean has anyone been specifically punished in some way, no. But, look, Lester, that war didn’t end the way anybody wanted it to end. And I can tell you, with 100% certainty, that thousands of people, from privates, to generals, to people in the interagency, did their very best that they could under the circumstances to make sure that we executed the president’s orders. Wars don’t end because of events in the last ten or fifteen days, any war is the cumulative effect of many, many decisions along the way. This was a 20-year war. There were decisions made over 20 years that landed us where we did.”

[ChicagoConservative27]

Go away already you woke pig

[1Old Pro]

did cnn hire this loser yet?

[IC Ken]

Not a word about how many America and were left there to be tortured.

[Tench_Coxe]

How did the Clintons put it?: “Mistakes were made”

[DeplorablePaul]

If Miss Milly was a Japanese general, he would have committed
hara-kiri as the shame would be unbearable.

[Reno89519]

Ah, but he has no shame. Or honor.

[circlecity]

Accountability is such an antiquated notion.

[Zathras]

The tranny retired as he heard something inside the ranks.
Most likely his protection is gone.

[Mathews]

HR is doing the background check now.

[laconic]

Probably because it would be his flesh of which he has plenty.

[DaBroasta]

A true, war-fighting general would have took responsibility and resigned after going along with a debacle like Biden's Afghanistan SNAFU.

[escapefromboston]

How are those recruitment levels ?

[brownsfan]

Uh, during my time in the military looking for a “pound of flesh” was standard operating procedure. It was also known as discipline.

This country is so screwed up.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Adm. Jeremy Boorda knew what to do.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Execute the President’s orders.”

So, the President is accountable for the fiasco and Milley was just following orders. I remember the Nazis in senior military positions saying this.

[ABStrauss]

This man is a military genius comparable to Georgie Patton or Doug MacArthur.

[Jan_Sobieski]

[dfwgator]

[griswold3]

The “Punishment “ is coming. The BRICS have gained notoriety and prestige with the US debacle. Our Suez Canal moment is just ahead (prolly in Ukraine as I type)

[Georgia Girl 2]

Milley will get his just rewards.