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Biden administration scrambled as its orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan unraveled
Washington Compost ^ | August 14, 2021 | Missy Ryan Image without a caption By Missy Ryan Reporter covering diplomacy and national security

Posted on 08/14/2021 4:53:01 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA

By the middle of the week, as cities across Afghanistan were falling like dominoes to the Taliban and U.S. diplomats appeared increasingly at risk, President Biden’s plan for an orderly end to the United States’ longest war was quickly falling apart.

On Wednesday evening, Biden convened his top advisers to assess the ominous turn of events. One by one, in the cramped Situation Room in the White House basement, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined the administration’s options for ensuring the security of U.S. personnel. Biden asked them to return with recommendations.

When the aides reconvened early the next morning, things had gotten worse. The Taliban was taking control of more and more of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals, most of them seized without a major fight, and the militants were bearing down on Kabul, the national capital. After being briefed by Sullivan and Austin, Biden gave the order to activate a plan deploying troops to secure the Kabul airport and create an evacuation route for Americans on the ground.

Blinken called Kabul, where the U.S. Embassy’s top diplomat was already presiding over packing and document destruction, and told him most embassy personnel would move to the airport. At U.S. Central Command in Tampa, military leaders ordered intensified airstrikes on militants driving toward Kabul, hoping to slow their advance as U.S. personnel and their allies scrambled to get out.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; gaffe; missyryan; puppetboy; thesenilepuppet; wapoo
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To: grey_whiskers

So who...

Ran all the banks?

Flooded with Africans?

Where did you find that loon?


21 posted on 08/14/2021 5:15:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Demented old fool expects the same idiots that caused the problem to solve it ....


22 posted on 08/14/2021 5:15:03 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: ConservativeInPA

The administration is about as effective
as a cat covering crap on linoleum.


23 posted on 08/14/2021 5:21:02 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Biden administration scrambled as its orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan unraveled

The lame stream media calling babblin' biden's chaotic withdrawal "orderly".

Agitprop from and for the useful idiot minions.

24 posted on 08/14/2021 5:21:42 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict at Large)
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To: griswold3

We could throw rainbow flags and vaccines at the Taliban—that should keep them at bay.


25 posted on 08/14/2021 5:23:32 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

“National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined the administration’s options for ensuring the security of U.S. personnel. Biden asked them to return with recommendations.”

Whereupon the returned to their corners and conferred privately on the back channels saying:

“We screwed up, no way out of this that is good. Better now show how bad we screwed up yet, there may be a way out of it yet so don’t go over the top with additional troop recommendations. Yea, make it look like we just misjudged instead of totally cocking this thing up. Should never have abandoned Bagram.”


26 posted on 08/14/2021 5:24:04 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: chief lee runamok

They planned for “orderly”.

They got cluster&^%$.


27 posted on 08/14/2021 5:24:40 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: BenLurkin

He wandered into another site uninvited.


28 posted on 08/14/2021 5:25:35 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: NonValueAdded

Orderly? It is a nine line free fall cluster fluck and they know it. I just pray not too many people get killed.


29 posted on 08/14/2021 5:26:01 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: cgbg

Expecting the enemy to cooperate is always a mistake.


30 posted on 08/14/2021 5:28:08 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: ConservativeInPA
From Instapundit.com: − Avatar George Turner • 3 minutes ago Have hope people. Just two days ago the State Department posted a job opening for Kabul. I assembled screenshots to preserve it for posterity.
31 posted on 08/14/2021 5:28:43 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: cgbg
This was willful intent by the Biden Admin.

They mistake they made was calculating that they could cram down America's throat and get away with it.

I've never been one ascribe malicious intent to that which can be explained by mere incompetency.

The events in Afghanistan cannot be explained away by mere incompetency. As things develop and shake out, I predict we will realize the full nature of the malicious intent, but by then it will be far too late. Unless, of course, the CYA attempts at damage control succeed. This is unlikely, if for no other reason than they are not serious but merely going through the motions kabuki theater to show they tried.

32 posted on 08/14/2021 5:30:23 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Fido969

33 posted on 08/14/2021 5:31:04 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Bonemaker

I’m for referring to Milley as the man who lost Afghanistan but won the hearts of ANTIFA


34 posted on 08/14/2021 5:32:26 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Another BuckFiden screw-up, how usual.


35 posted on 08/14/2021 5:32:48 PM PDT by upchuck (CAUTION: A new variant will be released every time people stop being afraid. ~ h/t pookie's cartoons)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Biden is going to pay the ransom just like Obama did at Benghazi.

And then the Democrat Party Crime Syndicate will get a cut.


36 posted on 08/14/2021 5:34:26 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I’m asking for some real honesty. I’m asking for folks to dig deep and put aside their political leanings for one moment.

Has the Left or Democrats EVER done anything right?

I’m not just talking ‘morally’ right. We know the answer to that.

Have they ever done anything that, when implemented wasn’t a complete and utter disaster?


37 posted on 08/14/2021 5:35:23 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: ConservativeInPA
This was all just a simple misunderstanding...

Biden thought they asked if he wanted them to pull out an Afghan from the chest because his feet were cold...

He never meant for any of THIS to happen...

-PJ

38 posted on 08/14/2021 5:38:01 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: ConservativeInPA
The bullshit pumps are on full blast at the WaPo. This, for example:

In justifying the decision, Biden’s aides argued that the president’s hands were tied by Trump’s February 2020 agreement with the Taliban, which committed the United States to withdrawing in 2021.

It was Trump's agreement that (1) had a schedule, (2) had a deadline, and which (3) the Taliban and the Afghan government agreed to. The WaPo tactfully neglected to mention Dementia Joe's team's decision to abrogate the agreement, reset the schedule, and change the deadline to 11 September. And, (4) for the WaPo to give Dementia Joe credit for being a peacekeeper as opposed to that warmonger Trump.

Well, the fiction fell apart and this is the ridiculous narrative they've spent all week coming up with. Joe's team, including the WaPo, blew it. Period. They turned a more or less graceful departure into a humiliating debacle and are now looking to deflect blame. More of this, much more, is to come.

39 posted on 08/14/2021 5:39:04 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: rdcbn1

It is difficult to figure out intent, because it depends on which actors you are talking about...

Many inside the beltway have one objective—steal as much money as possible while they are there. They couldn’t care less about “policy” despite all their public statements to the contrary. In their case policy failures are neither intentional nor accidental, just collateral damage.


40 posted on 08/14/2021 5:41:33 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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