Does you handle stand for "fury" of "furry"? I have to ask because millennials don't know how to spell and you post like a child-like leftist.
Posted on 08/15/2021 6:18:48 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
As panicked Afghans watched Taliban fighters roll into the capital city of Kabul Sunday, sealing the collapse of the U.S.-backed government there, many Americans were left wondering how top Biden officials could have been so wrong in their recent proclamations that Kabul would not easily fall.
Just days ago, a U.S. military analysis reported by ABC News predicted that Kabul could fall within 90 days -- not by the weekend.
"This is a crisis of untold proportions," Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) told NBC News Sunday as Taliban militants swept into Kabul. "This is an intelligence failure. We underestimated the Taliban and overestimated the resolve of the Afghan Army."
But numerous U.S. officials tell ABC News that the opposite was true, insisting that key intelligence assessments had consistently informed policymakers that the Taliban could overwhelm the country and take the capital within week.
"[U.S.] leaders were told by the military it would take no time at all for the Taliban to take everything," an anonymous U.S. intelligence official told ABC News. "No one listened."
Other intelligence sources said that Biden and his team of advisers had reached their decision about the U.S. military's withdrawal -- which was all but completed on July 4 -- based on a variety of factors that went beyond Kabul's fate.
A senior congressional official who asked not to be named in order to discuss sensitive briefings told ABC News that intelligence officers had warned the U.S. leaders about a swift and total victory by the fundamentalist Taliban militants who had held power in Kabul during the late 1990s up until after the Sept. 11 attacks.
"The intelligence community assessment has always been accurate; they just disregarded it," the official told ABC News, speaking about the Biden administration.
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Its scarier that now these monsters are not distracted by Afghanistan and will turn their evil focus on
destroying us using the radicalized BLM military and endless mass Amnesty and the AOC Global warming police .
God bless ya but that .
No... they didn’t. They told Biden not to do it.
He did it anyway.
Biden takes his orders from China.
Re: 40 - Totally disgusting comment. What the hell has happened to FReepers?
The guy presenting the program was born in India, and wrote the book, WOKE. INC. He is doing an EXCELLENT job explaining what Woke-ism is really about, and why it is so DANGEROUS.
“The intelligence community assessment has always been accurate;”
Who said this with a straight face? He’s the best liar on Earth.
L
They misread the codebook...
Admiral, if we go "by the book"... hours could seem like days.In Biden's world, 90 days was really 90 hours.I read you captain. Let's have it.
The situation is grave, Admiral. We won't have main power for six "days". Auxiliary power has temporarily failed. Restoration may be possible, in two "days". By the book, Admiral.
-PJ
Now, I might be giving intelligence a bit more credit than they deserve (I worked 30 years with intel systems, so there's that). Some argue there isn't any intelligence. Those people might have a point. But none of that makes me pro-Biden. Dear lord, read my posts since 1/20/21.
Sorry you are seeing the posts. I have that user totally blocked from my view now, so any future responses to me or anyone else will be out of my view (userscript).
Does you handle stand for "fury" of "furry"? I have to ask because millennials don't know how to spell and you post like a child-like leftist.
Re: 70 - LOL!
You’re a tough talker from behind the keyboard. All show, no go.
Stop crapping on FR.
It even censors like a leftist! It is a liberal!
Re: 69 - No worries. His mess on the thread will be cleaned up soon. And he got added to my gray list, so that’s a bonus.
Everything is going to plan.
“Afghanistan’s collapse: Did US intelligence get it wrong?”
Had to do a Babylon Bee check.
White men are, obviously, the real threat.
Ask the DHS.
They say so in print.
Is there really more than one way to answer that question?
In possibly related news, I bet the intelligence agencies will have fabulous pride events this Fall.
Please paraphrase it because it no longer exists.
duh!
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