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
How does the Trump plan compare with the Biden plan? How were the tens of thousands of Afghan support personel going to be transpoeted the 40 miles to Bagram, how many would be needed to protect the likely convoys and maintain the ground transport? Why was it taking as much as 5 years to try to get permission if you were an Afghan translator? Were our Afghan helpers going to be shafted like our Kurdish cooperators? How many US soldiers were going to be needed to get all this done by a May 1 deadline? It would seem President Trump would have had to send many more military personnel into Afghanistan to accomplish all this 40 miles away at Bagram. How would the Taliban reacted to such an increase in troop strength before a May 1 deadline? A lot of questions here. Does anyone have factual answeers?
PS: Deepest sympathy for our 13 dead and more injured US soldiers, not to mention the 100 other dead and many injured yesterday. Will the Taliban be able to stop these ISIS terrorists afrom exporting their terror attacks using an Afghan home base? Will this end up being a temporary withdraw?