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….
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Prioritizing politics...
Reminds me of Mattis during the Haditha Marines trials...
And nothing changed thereafter.
Their fall guy.
“closer to the embassy”
Yup. It’s a big heavily fortified embassy. But it doesn’t have an airfield. And once the Taliban moved into Kabul it was pretty worthless
Blame the general who is already slated to retire.... sure
So Miller was required to defend the embassy, but he would have only 700 guys. Yeah, I imagine they’d be spread pretty thin protecting an air base and an embassy 40 miles apart with only one battalion.
But why trade having to protect one installation for having to protect 2? The person who thought the embassy was more important should have been over ruled.
BUT, the President of the United States tells this man he has one friggin' infantry battalion, use it wisely. Bagram is a huge base. One battalion can't secure it if it is under determined attack. Plus, Bagram is too far away from the Embassy to be able to support evacuations, if needed. Given that every option was a s#!t sandwich, the Airport was probably the best.
The fault lies with the President and his national security staff who imposed this moronic limit. AND, with General Woke Milley and his spineless Chiefs of Staff who failed to advise the President his plan could lead to disaster. What did McMaster call that when the Joint Chiefs failed to throw down with McNamara and Johnson for their moronic Vietnam war plans? Oh, yeah, Dereliction of Duty.
Scott Miller was a former CAG officer and commander of JSOC. Men who served under him in those roles think extremely highly of him. But, he is also the officer who pushed the first women through to graduate from Ranger school.
This sure looks like an attempt to blame things on a retiring general, but Miller may have caved to political pressure in the past. So, ...
The chinese bought Biden and the lefties love him distracting from their takeover.
They will steal the next election to keep destroying America
To think a embassy was more important, during a tactical withdrawl from a foreign country, than a functioning, well defended airbase, is ludicrous on its face.
state dept employees didnt want to have to take a short helicopter ride to bagram these pu$$ies are worthless.
thats my theory
Great post. It was a succinct bigger picture of what really happened.
Excellent post. You’ve shown us exactly who is responsible and, obviously, the buck stops with Biden.
Naw.
It was all the woke crap that they pushed on them.
The kind of stuff that made all sane people not want to support that corrupt government.
So, who made the deal to sell out the Afghani’s?
How much Hunter art did they have to buy ?!?
He was right, 100%
This guy's Biden's puppet master
Ron Klein https://t.co/pVNMzb44sa https://t.co/oeq0qAgK64— Slip Stream News - 🇺🇸 Phenomonologist (@GaryZPon) August 27, 2021
They are all traitors!
Blood on their hands partial list:
Biden / Ho
Cabinet
Top Pentagon brass
Biden voters, donors
Media
Social media
Hollywood a-holes
Didn’t DJT say Gen. Milley wanted to leave the equipment as it wasn’t cost effective to bring it out?
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