.the buck stops with Biden...period!
Posted on 08/26/2021 7:59:06 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Retiring General Scott Miller is to blame for the bungled US exit from Afghanistan, a military expert who predicted the fall of the nation's capital months ago has claimed.
Bill Roggio, a senior fellow at think tank the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, slammed military leadership, telling DailyMail.com he tried to warn the Pentagon of the swift advance of the Taliban towards Kabul in the weeks before they took the city but was 'ignored'.
Roggio said President Joe Biden insisted on a reduced force of just 700 troops to both keep the US embassy in Kabul open and secure an airport to evacuate the rest of the 3,500 US soldiers, thousands of other Americans and Afghan allies.
As the US commander on the ground and facing the tight constraint, Miller chose Hamid Karzai International Airport in the middle of Kabul for the evacuation, telling US forces to abandon the nearby military airbase of Bagram outside the city.
Miller left Afghanistan in July and is due to retire from the military.
But his fateful decision came back to bite him when the Taliban swarmed into the capital within days, surrounding the airport and frustrating the evacuation of both Americans and allied Afghans, leaving many stranded and at risk of attack….
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Come on! You all KNOW how this plays out:
1. Enthusiasm,
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic and hysteria
4. Search for the guilty <-— We Are Here
5. Punishment of the innocent
6. Praise and honor for the nonparticipants
Who’s in charge of this clusterF??? Does anyone know??
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Ask Obama - its his people who ran the disastrous Iraq withdrawal that the Joek chose to run the Afghan withdrawal.
.the buck stops with Biden...period!
Gen Miller was in Gothic Serpent. I don't buy the idea that someone with that as one of his earliest military experiences closes out his career by saying "yeah, we don't need Bagram."
Curiously, they don't say why he left Afghanistan in July if the mission was to end two months later. What command allows that to happen if it's on the deployment schedule? What general packs up and leaves command before finishing the mission, knowing that the mission is wrapping up in mere weeks?
It works quite well.
Pin the tail on the donkey leaving the stable, with all his perks intact. He’ll write a book later while scooping up board and consulting money that will blame some yet-to-be-disgraced elected fool.
Miller was the one who said leaving Bagram was a bad idea.
OF COURSE they are trying to pin this on him.
This article is complete BS. Miller was the one pushing to keep Bagram open. Milley and secdef over ruled him.
Posobiec said they are trying to push Miller under the bus, and blame him. This piece is the first big lie. Soon, more.
“Maybe Miller said collapse to Kabul. But he was responding to you got no more then 700 make a choice. Kind of like he was going to be the fall guy.”
Yes. This article is bs throwing Miller under the bus, by secdef and Milley-The-Woke.
Whatever trumps plan was or was not, the one fact in evidence is HE WAS NOT IN CHARGE at the time THIS plan was put into effect. Recall when Bush took over for the SaxPlaying ass, nine months into 9/11. All we heard was he had no plan and should have. Valid. Probably but the result was the same: when you are CiC YOU are where the buck stops not with some retiring GO. This was a political calculation wherein he tried to fill in a straight flush and busted out.
Exactly. Bush was in office longer than Biden has been, when 9/11 happened. Yet here he gets a pass for some reason.
I blame Biden
I blame his idiot voters.
“EXCLUSIVE: Military expert says General Scott Miller gets the lion’s share of blame for Afghanistan debacle, claiming by abandoning Bagram he prioritized politics instead of questioning Biden’s flawed decision to reduce US troops to just 700”
uh, sure ... because everyone knows that the U.S. military is an autonomous organization that reports to no one, and that the Commander-in-Chief is simply a ceremonial title of the person who simply watches from the sidelines with only vague interest in what the U.S. military decides on its own to do ...
The scumbags that arranged the #steal should be paying the price
Right. Normally, I’d blame the general. But if the President gave him an inadequate number of troops, and required him to protect both an airfield and Kabul itself, then he probably made the right call.
This is a lower level scapegoat to get Austen and Milley off the hot seat.
Biden is ultimately at fault for pushing all of these guys into a no win situation, but Milley and Austen have to go. They needed to INSIST that this was a failed strategy that would strand Americans and get our troops killed.
Personally, I don’t care who was thrown under the bus, and I don’t care what excuses someone makes, and I don’t care who through out judgments. This thing was f’k. I am tired of folks blaming others for sloppy work. Step up the plate, Biden Dems Pelosi et al.
Agreed. Of all of those generals, Miller is by far the most honorable.
threw
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