Posted on 08/14/2021 4:19:05 AM PDT by RandFan
That time is past. Why China Mitch is barking like a chained dog makes no sense.
Maybe some DOD person is yapping in his ear but the damage is done.
How the Taliban prepared and executed this massive offensive under the Biden-Obamunists’ noses is a fait accompli.
President Trump kept the Taliban on their heels. They feared him. After, no talks, just Taliban military execution and humiliation.
ChiComs ready on two days notice to give official recognition to the Taliban in Afghanistan as soon as their black flag is raised.
...The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese Army. They’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability,”...
0bama’s JV team is crushing all resistance...
The advance on the Afghan capital indeed seems incomparable since the Taliban advance has been much much more rapid:.
The rapidity with which the South Vietnamese position collapsed in 1975 was surprising to most American and South Vietnamese observers, and probably to the North Vietnamese and their allies as well. For instance, a memo prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and U.S. Army Intelligence and published on March 5 indicated that South Vietnam could hold out through the current dry season—i.e., at least until 1976.[18] These predictions proved to be grievously in error. Even as that memo was being released, General Dũng was preparing a major offensive in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, which began on 10 March
On April 9, PAVN forces reached Xuân Lộc, the last line of defense before Saigon, where the ARVN 18th Division made a last stand and held the city through fierce fighting for 11 days. The ARVN finally withdrew from Xuân Lộc on April 20 having inflicted heavy losses on the PAVN, and on April 21 President Thiệu resigned in a tearful televised announcement in which he denounced the United States for failing to come to the aid of the South.[24] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Saigon
The Turtle-in-Chief is a crack military strategist
Spin it anyway you like, it is Bush, Cheney, and the Neocons who own the failure of Afghanistan. Yeah Biden botched the exit, but hindsight always reveals brutal truths.
To the contrary. A very concentration force an hour away from Kabul, being bombed by B-52's and missiles and strafed with gunships could devastate this murderous Muhammad army. May God grant these souls repentance unto life while they still have it, but they will kill multitudes if not stopped, and likely be an asset to China and Russia.
I have no problem with the US going into Afghanistan to take down AQ and the Taliban for harboring them. OBL planned 9/11 in Afghanistan.
Mission creep was/is the problem. We started nation building. Obama initiated a surge. The military lied about the situation on the ground. Obama/Biden had 8 years to set a different policy. Blaming Bush and Cheney without mentioning Obama/Biden is intellectually dishonest.
Trump pushed for withdrawal and was thwarted at every turn by the JCS. The military leadership is the only constant as Presidents come and go. I ascribe as much blame to them as I do to the political class. There was no exit strategy.
“I call on the Taliban to immediately halt the offensive and to negotiate in good faith in the interest of Afghanistan and its people,” he continued.
Hahahaaaa!
“The military leadership is the only constant as Presidents come and go. I ascribe as much blame to them as I do to the political class. There was no exit strategy.”
And how many in our military leadership were Obama appointments?
January 27, 1973 - The Paris Peace Accords are signed by the U.S., North Vietnam, South Vietnam and the Viet Cong. Under the terms, the U.S. agrees to immediately halt all military activities and withdraw all remaining military personnel within 60 days. The North Vietnamese agree to an immediate cease-fire and the release of all American POWs within 60 days. An estimated 150,000 North Vietnamese soldiers presently in South Vietnam are allowed to remain. Vietnam is still divided. South Vietnam is considered to be one country with two governments, one led by President Thieu, the other led by Viet Cong, pending future reconciliation.
March 29, 1973 - The last remaining American troops withdraw from Vietnam as President Nixon declares “the day we have all worked and prayed for has finally come.”
September 1974 - The U.S. Congress appropriates only $700 million for South Vietnam. This leaves the South Vietnamese Army under-funded and results in a decline of military readiness and morale.
December 13, 1974 - North Vietnam violates the Paris peace treaty and tests President Ford’s resolve by attacking Phuoc Long Province in South Vietnam. President Ford responds with diplomatic protests but no military force in compliance with the Congressional ban on all U.S. military activity in Southeast Asia.
January 8, 1975 - NVA general staff plan for the invasion of South Vietnam by 20 divisions is approved by North Vietnam’s Politburo. By now, the Soviet-supplied North Vietnamese Army is the fifth largest in the world. It anticipates a two year struggle for victory. But in reality, South Vietnam’s forces will collapse in only 55 days.
April 20, 1975 - U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin meets with President Thieu and pressures him to resign given the gravity of the situation and the unlikelihood that Thieu could ever negotiate with the Communists.
April 21, 1975 - A bitter, tearful President Thieu resigns during a 90 minute rambling TV speech to the people of South Vietnam. Thieu reads from the letter sent by Nixon in 1972 pledging “severe retaliatory action” if South Vietnam was threatened. Thieu condemns the Paris Peace Accords, Henry Kissinger and the U.S. “The United States has not respected its promises. It is inhumane. It is untrustworthy. It is irresponsible.” He is then ushered into exile in Taiwan, aided by the CIA.
April 23, 1975 - 100,000 NVA soldiers advance on Saigon which is now overflowing with refugees. On this same day, President Ford gives a speech at Tulane University stating the conflict in Vietnam is “a war that is finished as far as America is concerned.”
April 29, 1975 - NVA shell Tan Son Nhut air base in Saigon, killing two U.S. Marines at the compound gate. Conditions then deteriorate as South Vietnamese civilians loot the air base. President Ford now orders Operation Frequent Wind, the helicopter evacuation of 7000 Americans and South Vietnamese from Saigon, which begins with the radio broadcast of the song “White Christmas” as a pre-arraigned code signal.
At Tan Son Nhut, frantic civilians begin swarming the helicopters. The evacuation is then shifted to the walled-in American embassy, which is secured by U.S. Marines in full combat gear. But the scene there also deteriorates, as thousands of civilians attempt to get into the compound.
Three U.S. aircraft carriers stand by off the coast of Vietnam to handle incoming Americans and South Vietnamese refugees. Many South Vietnamese pilots also land on the carriers, flying American-made helicopters which are then pushed overboard to make room for more arrivals. Filmed footage of the $250,000 choppers being tossed into the sea becomes an enduring image of the war’s end.
April 30, 1975 - At 8:35 a.m., the last Americans, ten Marines from the embassy, depart Saigon, concluding the United States presence in Vietnam. North Vietnamese troops pour into Saigon and encounter little resistance. By 11 a.m., the red and blue Viet Cong flag flies from the presidential palace. President Minh broadcasts a message of unconditional surrender. The war is over.
Turtle needn’t bother. Biden will send a stern email to the Taliban.
16th and 19th
Maybe nows the time to drop a tac nuke?
Cocaine Mitch enjoys this.
He’s as useful as mammaries on a male bovine.
Why is this scrotum necked bastard still in office?
Millet and even the retired Mattis are up to their eyeballs in this.
Idiots made Trump the enemy.
Leave a calling card on our way out; carpet bomb the living shit out of the bastards.
Mitch should just sit in the corner and lick his lollipop as he has done for the last 5 years!
Pissing into the wind.
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