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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You are not paying attention.
The number one terrorist enemy of the current administration is you and me, not the Taliban.
Sorry to deliver the bad news....
So the Taliban is Number 2? My bad
...he bade a very brave retreat!
Bravely, bravely brave Sir Robinette!
Great post. I thought they meant FT Lee in NJ! I hope your SIL stays safe.
OMG
😂😂😂😂😂☠️pic.twitter.com/pBxuyFtBnP— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) August 15, 2021
LOL...could be quite the inferno if they throw in the Black Lives Matter banners.
Seems commies are ready to dump Biden... I'm guessing 'gone before Christmas'...
.............and the “WE LOVE LGCBTQU” posters.......
Why cant we kick his sorry a*** out now?
Biden assured us the Afghan forces would stave off a collapse.....
....yet......
In the wake of President Biden’s withdrawal decision, the U.S. pulled its air support, intelligence and contractors servicing Afghanistan’s planes and helicopters.
That meant the Afghan military simply couldn’t operate.
Liz - I know it happened but it makes no sense UNLESS the goal was to have Afghanistan fall... Yes, it would help China, Russia and Pakistan - but it still doesn't make sense that Biden or his stupid thugs at the Pentagon would do this intentionally.
On a lighter note our 'brass' seems as stupid as they come:
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/08/15/woke-gen-mark-milley-in-july-afghan-security-forces-have-the-capacity-to-defend-their-country/
‘Woke’ Gen. Mark Milley, in July: ‘Afghan Security Forces Have the Capacity to … Defend Their Country’
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told reporters less than four weeks before the Taliban entered Kabul that the local military was fully capable of defending Afghanistan from the insurgent Islamic terrorist militia.
Milley should resign first.....IMMEDIATELY.
Joe to follow.
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