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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: qaz123

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....


61 posted on 08/14/2021 6:55:44 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: cgbg

So the Taliban is Number 2? My bad


62 posted on 08/14/2021 7:06:20 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: grey_whiskers

...he bade a very brave retreat!
Bravely, bravely brave Sir Robinette!


63 posted on 08/14/2021 7:52:27 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Great post. I thought they meant FT Lee in NJ! I hope your SIL stays safe.


64 posted on 08/14/2021 9:01:44 PM PDT by gcparent (God Bless America )
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To: BenLurkin

OMG

😂😂😂😂😂☠️pic.twitter.com/pBxuyFtBnP— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) August 15, 2021


65 posted on 08/14/2021 10:54:32 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: Tijeras_Slim

66 posted on 08/14/2021 10:55:53 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
Do they save the rainbow flags at the Kabul embassy or do they burn them?

LOL...could be quite the inferno if they throw in the Black Lives Matter banners.

67 posted on 08/14/2021 11:04:36 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse (Nothing dies harder than a lie that people want to believe)
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To: ConservativeInPA; Liz
The Compost is now assigning multiple journalists to write hit pieces on Biden.

Seems commies are ready to dump Biden... I'm guessing 'gone before Christmas'...

68 posted on 08/15/2021 8:15:45 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's Border Plan: Dump diseased illegals in Florida & other red states to discredit DeSantis )
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To: Cuttnhorse

.............and the “WE LOVE LGCBTQU” posters.......


69 posted on 08/15/2021 12:20:26 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: GOPJ

Why cant we kick his sorry a*** out now?


70 posted on 08/15/2021 12:23:03 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: GOPJ

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.


71 posted on 08/15/2021 1:53:45 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz
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.

72 posted on 08/15/2021 2:27:53 PM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's Border Plan: Dump diseased illegals in Florida & other red states to discredit DeSantis )
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To: GOPJ

Milley should resign first.....IMMEDIATELY.

Joe to follow.


73 posted on 08/15/2021 8:04:07 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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