Many people have wondered how the Biden administration could get the collapse of Afghanistan so horribly wrong and botched completely the withdrawal of U.S. forces. To that point there is a little known Question and Answer session by Colorado Congressman Doug Lamborn (CO, CD05) that deserves some attention.
Approximately 7 weeks ago, June 23rd, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley testified in front of the House Armed Services Committee about their budget requests. Rep Doug Lamborn took this opportunity, he only had 4 minutes, to ask some very specific questions about Afghanistan and his concerns for early reports of the Taliban surging back into control.
Lamborn asked about the hazard of closing Bagrham AFB given the tenuous nature of reliance on one airport in Kabul. Lamborn also asked about the evacuation of U.S-Afghan allies and the risk to women and girls if the Taliban were successful. What Def Sec Austin and General Milley said in response totally explains why the White House was blind-sided by the Taliban in the past week. [WATCH Video at 01:06:56, Prompted]
Given the nature of what has happened in Afghanistan, those totally wrong estimations of the situation in the region should be enough to see both Secretary Austin and General Milley fired. At the very least reliance on this inept and totally wrong outlook explains why the Biden administration had no idea what was about to happen.
Congressman Doug Lamborn’s questioning was directly on point and in hindsight, stunningly prescient. Great job by Lamborn!
Hopefully Austin was wrong when he said that any defense of women and girls in Afghanistan will be contingent upon the U.S. embassy in Kabul. The U.S. embassy in Kabul is no longer there, the Taliban have it.
These people are an embarrassment to the United States, the military and to themselves. The last of which does not matter.
When I was 12, my dad told me out of the blue that I can’t allow my mom to be captured by pirates. I knew what he meant because we both read the same books. If mom was captured she would be raped, tortured and killed. If something were to happen to my dad, I might have to do the unthinkable.
From that moment on, every boat was a pirate boat until proven otherwise. I also had to protect my dad because I never wanted mom to be my decision. I have an idea, lets not go sailing in the pirate waters!
Afghanistan is going to be no different. The men who worked for Americans will be killed and the women will become spoils of war. American wokness does not transfer to barbarians.
American wokness does transfer to barbarians, as seen on the streets of many major U.S. cities.
We all need to follow your father’s words of wisdom, though, and keep the barbarians from forcing their evil on the rest of us.
Exactly correct. And none of the US agencies chartered to protect its citizens and the Constitution are doing anything remotely like that. We are not represented, our votes don’t matter, and the decision to corrode the foundation of the US has been made and there is NOTHING we can do about it.
” They will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to see what is happening to them.” A quote from George Orwell’s book 1984. Written in 1949!! Look up America!
Well, Dan, with that attitude, it is guaranteed that nothing will be done about it! Please remember all those who have sacrificed everything to preserve our Republic and our liberty. There is ALWAYS something that can be done…and while things do look grim, this fight has just begun.
As John Adams put it:
“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.”
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Also 2 months ago:
That must have really pi..ed off the Taliban.
not just the Taliban, the rest of the country is Muslim — they would throw a LBGT off a building too. Look at the reporter saying “they want to kill us but they are nice” there is one of these “nice” guys right behind her, standing akimbo, with a grin on his face. What he is thinking is not “nice’/
One of the punishments for homosexuality used by Taliban jurisprudence was to execute homosexuals by pushing a wall onto them and crushing them. I’m not making this up. I guess after 20 years of Soviet and civil war there was a wall shortage so they started throwing them from buildings.
The last Taliban regime’s Minister of Education did not have a formal education. I suspect nothing will be different this time. These religions fanatics will run what’s left of the country into the ground, and their sexually repressed army will receive their spoils.
It’s a bad time to be associated, especially women, with the past corrupt regime.
The top of that regime have their suitcases of US cash stashed in the UAE and will live comfortably in exile.
What a stupid thing to do and an insult to the Muslins. Whoever came up with this idea and Biden allowing it is absurd.
These men who have totally disgraced the uniform and our country.
I am in Congressman Doug Lamborn’s district, and have found him to be an outstanding representative of the people and a staunch defender of the Constitution.
While I place my trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, I do hope that Rep. Lamborn and the good men and women like him in Congress will continue to seek out the truth and to do what is right for our great nation.
One of the most frustrating things for me is to watch these hacks, all of them in all genres, pretend to know their jobs and what is best. Just about every day I cruise through various blogs and comment sections, and WE THE PEOPLE know more, understand more, and know everything that these people do not and yet they are the ones in control.
I just want to SCREAM.
I think that’s why a lot of us loved the communication style of President Trump. He spoke our language. It wasn’t loaded up with bee ess but was plain unvarnished truth…….something that America needed to hear whether they were offended or not.
Mission: shred Constitution
Mission: prove America weak and untrustworthy
Mission: humiliate America
Mission: aid and comfort American enemies
Far from getting everything “horribly wrong”, I’d say The Junta is fulfilling its mission with frightening speed and accuracy.
I remember too many wars, Presidents, & political vaxes shoved, or attempted to be, into our brains to mold us.
Yet, I believe more than ever, the United States of America were built with the strength, bodies & blood of those who knew this Country was worth the price.
My hat’s long been in the ring to follow their lead. Where are the others, & their children & grandchildren whose commitment to America should be evident & unafraid?
“Ya see we’re lying to your faces and ya just have to believe us”…sums it up!
We have come to learn that
people in these positions cannot be trusted.
They have failed to earn any trust.
Thank you Mark Steyn:
Federal Unitary Central Kabul Western Intelligence Tracking Service
I’ll let you work out the acronym ?
Quite obvious to a fast reader, and also quite accurate.
Love it! Wits and tards could easily be interchangeable.
As we used to say ‘Whiskey Alpha Whiskey’.
What a waste
Don’t forget “FUBAR”!!!
Now for some snark 🙂
Although our highest ranking officers in charge of the Afghanistan debacle were completely clueless and criminally negligent, at least we can rest easy knowing that our troops are properly educated about the dangers of ‘white rage’, ‘systemic racism’, ‘implicit and unconscious bias’, ‘the need for equity in every case’ and all the other tenants of Marxist derived, American hating Critical Race Theory!
Kinda makes you proud doesn’t it? Well doesn’t it?
Don’t forget pronouns and men in high heels for empathy training.
A combined IQ of 83 at that table. Milley Vanilli needs to reapply his lipstick.
That combined IQ seems a bit inflated to me.
The IQ of the table accounts for 90% of the total.
Makes the term, “dumber than a fence post” relevant.
As my Grandma used to say, “You can put lipstick on a pig…and it’s still a pig.”
Just as they have deliberately allowed the invasion from the south, which includes drugs, gangs, theft, rape, cultural destruction, vote fraud, … they also did this deliberately.
Sadly, you are correct. This was on purpose.
The one action that traitors Austin, Milley, Blinken, et al will take: is to bring 100,000 foreigners (so-called refugees) to dump on defenseless American towns.
They did this on purpose in order to dump en mass more foreigners here to out-number Americans. This is part of the open-borders strategy.
Additionally, we can count on 10% to 30% of the “refugees” will join up with actual terror or crime organizations.
Giving BigBrother another excuse to spy on us via the crooked DHS, and further curtail our Bill of Rights freedoms.
Can both of these idiots be used for Prisoner exchange with the Taliban?
They dont have to say anything. Their mismanagement of this situation alone should demand their firing.
Best Bet? This is Kabuki Theatre to remove Biden from office + get seated in the White House the person they’ve wanted all along as a replacement of Trump.
Mega $ did not move heaven + earth to steal the last election in such a brazen manner — just to get Biden in.
It should be obvious – they must have Earth-shaking things prepared + planned for these coming years. Things so big + desired, they couldn’t wait 4 more years for Trump’s 2nd term to end. —- They expended a hades of an amount of political capital last election. They decloaked for all to witness. ———- They must have huge plans to trigger…
Just look how they began 2020 —- the year the Club of Rome told us in 1972 would witness the start of the rapid collapse of Civilization. (You can’t predict a Pandemic 50 years in advance — unless you planned on unleashing it yourself…)
I find it highly unlikely Biden is the person they chose to QB the coming orchestrated implosion of the US + thus world…
— If they pull the trigger on getting Biden out — I expect we’ll find out soon after —- what other triggers they have staged + waiting…..
I really don’t think it will be giggles Harris. She is just too dumb to carry out Obama’s agenda.
Why does the office of the President matter when you control all departments underneath that? No head gets past the senate.
Excuse me, but have you been paying attention to the present Thief-in-Chief?
All they need is a lifeless puppet–no brains required.
It’s not Obama’s. Mega $ owns government…
Maybe…but according to Shipwreckedcrew, it will take 51 votes in Senate to seat a new VP & the Dems don’t have 51 senators.
If the VP spot remains open, the Dems no longer have a majority in the Senate. Even going full nuclear on the fillibuster won’t change this.
Just a small silver lining as things proceed
The Uniparty has had a Senate majority for a long time. Don’t doubt their capability to betray us.
you count on Collins, Murkowski, Mittens, etc to be our silver lining?
There will be more than enough Republicans to confirm Harris’ VP nominee.
Position needs to be filled, and it will be one of those “give the president her team” decisions.
Doesn’t that situation just move Pelosi up in the batting order ?
Any vacancy in the VP slot must be approved by both chambers of Congress:
Those circumstances are provided for in the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, which was passed in 1967. Section 2 states:
“Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.”
https://people.howstuffworks.com/us-vice-presidential-vacancy-is-filled.htm
Part of the decloaking Mega $ had to do to accomplish the greatest Election Fraud in history should have taught everybody — there is no Left-Right divide in DC or the “2” political parties…
That’s all kabuki theatre.
They are all Globalists doing the bidding of Mega $.
The corruption of our institutions is near total…
“… the Dems don’t have 51 senators …”
Please allow me to respectfully disagree … a few names (not all by any means) of effectively Dem senators:
I don’t believe for a second the Military + other experts did not believe Afghanistan could fall this quickly…. They had the examples of Afghanistan 2001/02 and Iraq after the US Invasion…. Zero chance they were “caught by surprise” by the events unfolding now…
It’s theatre.
I give it a 75% chance they are going to use Afghanistan to get Biden out and Harris in.
Then —– the REAL fireworks kick off….
Sounds about right.
Don’t agree. I think our Military (mainly the stupid and delusional generals) is that stupid. In fact, I think they have stupid to spare.
I think it is more likely a deal was struck with one big provision being — the Taliban would not ban poppy cultivation like it did in 2000 — and the generals knew all about the deal provisions and all we are witnessing now is public theatre…
These Washington Generals are losers.
Millie should be prosecuted for lying to congress when he testified that he wanted to understand the “white rage” that led hundreds of people to attempt to “overthrow the constitution” on 1/6. He knows damn well it had nothing to do with race and that they were trying to defend the constitution. He knows the election was a fraud because he was in on it. He needs to go to prison.
Bread and water and hard labor.
Having to make his own bed would be hard-labor for that lard-butt.
Dammit this is what gets me riled up. Listened to Matt Bracken (former Seal) and Bongino who’s been to Afghanistan and knows his stuff. Giving up that AFB is beyond believable. I am not going to get into the particulars of it but even with no military experience I am flabbergasted at how stupid this decision was.
From that Zeller guy on your previous video (MSNBC) said we have 86k to evacuate or they’re going to die. That Zeller guy was pretty adamant about that. He voted for Biden so I don’t feel much in the way for him. Back to the formerly secured AFB in Bagram. Without it all the Taliban have to do is bust up the runways in Kabul. And nothing substantial in the way of man power, weapons, or supplies comes in or out. I just can’t figure out is this extreme stupidity or is it some kind of mastermind crap to get a lot of Americans killed?
It’s most likely stupidity Austin looks like a total buffoon with his silly shield and mask. And I hope that traitorous Milly gets his due. Again, no military experience but one must think retaking that AFB in Bagram will not be easy? And the Taliban can easily stop our reinforcement and withdraw in Kabul. This has got hostage situation written all over it.
These leftists need to burn in hell. Just hope it’s not our troops and even loyal Afghans that pay with their lives for these fools. Maybe after this we will get moved down on their board of America’s most dangerous after this. I’m listening to the video as I type and this is little pow wow sounds like college students patting each other on the back. That lady at least tried to get a definition of extremism. This is sad, run down the morale of the American people and their military and families. Then ask the impossible. The left may have finally bitten off more than they chew to the detriment of all of us.
We don’t need military experience to know a jackass when we see one, or 2 in this case. The decorations on their uniforms don’t impress me, either. Hell, my grandson has more decorations than either of them on his boy scout uniform and he earned his (without getting anybody killed).
I was prouder of getting the award for having the best 4H garden in the county as a kid than I ever latter was for ranks and ribbons I got in the US Army.
you don’t just “bust up” the concrete in a commercial airport…they could crater it to make it unusable but the runways for commercial jets can be from 2-4 FEET thick depending on the size of the aircraft they handle with the thickest at the end of the operational runways
We left a plethora of damage causing hardware over there and the fellers from the Afghan Army (former) know how to use it. I’m sure the Taliban can persuade them to assist them; trust me. No jackhammers needed just good old American munitions. Again I’m not military but would have to guess a few well placed bombs will take care of a runway.
Pretty sure the Tally Ban have the firepower now, thx to Uncle Sam
Biden was with Odumbo (in office) when they let our sailors be captured by Iranians,
when Benghazi and our ambassador were taken,
when extortion 17 was taken down,
when Odumbo bowed around the globe,
when control of the internet was given away,
when isis ran rampant raping, be heading and setting fire to live prisoners in cages after abandoning the Iraqis who allied with us.
This is what they do I don’t understand the people who are surprised.
Yes indeedy, the decision to just up and leave Bagram in the middle of the night without even warning the Afghan forces was a monumental mistake. And in this video we see Austin saying we’re looking for other countries to provide a base closer to Afghanistan so we can shorten the distance of trips needed to exfiltrate the Americans and the Afghan interpreters. Followed almost immediately by Miss Milley saying we don’t need the AFB close by in Bagram to accomplish that. Really?????
Does that make sense to anyone besides from Milley?
And why in the SamSnot at this point in time are there so many Americans and their families still in Kabul? Should not at least 3/4 of them been sent home by May when the former agreement with the Taliban stated we would be out?
Has the State Department even ever said exactly how many Americans are actually still in Afghanistan? I’ve heard a lot of figures thrown out there, but they range from 1,000 to over 20,000. Does anyone actually know?
This a perfect example of military leaders who are totally inept, democrat followers and pure stupid. They all should both be relieved of their duties.
You have to admire that the USA government – with arguably the best military and intelligence services in the world – can still be so inept as to embarrass themselves so thoroughly on the global stage. If this is the level of competence out in the open, imagine the level of incompetence and corruption behind the scenes as they scramble to control the world via their globalist world view. Truly concerning. A bunch of know-nothing nincompoops. And everyone is expected to trust their agenda and narrative without question because they are the mighty US government. The American ‘media’ have a lot to answer for – sheep the lot of them. Almost none of them willing to stand up and question any of what the Biden administration has done to the USA and the world in a short 7 months. Instead they bah-bah and eat the grass served.
Do you mean people like Loooooootinenttt Kerrrrnelll Viddddmannnnn ?
The board is set. The pieces are moving.
I believe the pieces started moving before Team Biden was ready. That’s why he didn’t have a second to spare after his press event, and why he treated the Afghanistan debacle like it was not a big priority of his. We already know which pieces have been set, and those don’t take a lot of attention to get them moving. This seems like a lot of pieces moving that we didn’t know about.
You don’t have to be a military expert to know that Bagram air base should have been the LAST abandoned piece of Afghan real estate and yet Milley abandoned Bagram a couple a weeks ago. He is either very stupid or very diabolical i.e. he deliberately sabotaged the pull-out. Either way he should be fired tomorrow and charged with treason (do we still have the death penalty for traitors?)
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He’s stupid. An orders follower with no independent critical thinking ability. Now, trying to brownnose Austin, his little brain has been twisted into a pretzel.
I vote for diabolical. He’s a dedicated globalist, anti-american. He showed his card with his “white rage” comment.
These so called Military leaders are insane. A High School Military ROTC unit would have come up with a Surrender plan than these blow hards.
While I agree Austin and Miley should be fired it seems much more likely that they will get Congressional Gold Medals for doing President Howdy Doody’s bidding.
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Don’t forget, this was EXACTLY what General Mike Flynn was destroyed over.
“In response to a question about ISIS’s resurgence in Iraq, Obama stated on 7 January 2014: ‘…I think the analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a JV team put on Lakers uniforms, that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.’ Less than six months later, ISIS controlled swathes of territory across Syria and Iraq, had announced the establishment of its Caliphate and, by the end of 2014, had established transnational wilayats across the Middle East, Africa and the Subcontinent.”
Michael Flynn, former DIA chief: Obama ignored ISIS intel to fit election narrative
John Chambers has a list of questions for the General, starting with why did President Obama set him up?
General Flynn responds that it goes back to 2014 when he gave truthful testimony in an open hearing before Congress about ISIS and the rise of ISIS and al Qaeda. He says the Obama administration didn’t like it and the Intelligence Community didn’t like it. He was seated next to James Comey, James Clapper and John Brennan, all of whom swore under oath that “ISIS was on the run.”
Flynn, instead, told the truth: ISIS was in fact growing and expanding and the threat is increasing.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/2/michael-flynn-former-dia-chief-obama-ignored-isis-/
And so Obama destroyed him…
It is the most amazing thing, the only thing that matters to Democrats/Deep State is the “narrative”… what happens in the real world does not concern them in the least.
No, the true left (hardcore) has absolutely no conscience, honor, or loyalty. If they think they can get away with it they’ll do it. And with the media and tech most of the time they can. In a way it’s this very same hubris which makes them lazy and give us a chance to ultimately win.
7 weeks ago these two announced to the world (Afgans included) the U.S. was planning on abandoning everyone and everything. The only U.S. “Resistance” would be coordinated through, Kabul.
ALL the Taliban had to do was storm the city, take the embassy, then shut down the local airport…
and it was over.
Guess what happened…
They did exactly what President Trump said should never be done — what ever sane individual knows should never be done — they gave the enemy the details upfront.
And this telling the “enemy” what your next move will be is EXACTLY what Ovomit did for 8 long, incredibly stupid years over and over and OVER again! Remember?
Yeah, “enemy” my foot!
” At the very least reliance on this inept and totally wrong outlook explains why the Biden administration had no idea what was about to happen.”
I knew Joe couldn’t have thought up all this stupidity all by himself. He’s not that creative.
1:19:15 Question from Rep Hartzler asking what is extremism? And Sec. Austin cannot give a straight answer.
I have asked this myself. I have asked if the FBI has defined it, I have never seen an answer.
I think this is a small part of the problem with these fools (the other part being no conscious, no brains, and no clue what consequences are–just to name a few). But when you look at the “woke” idiots in America and who they demonize (namely, us) and who they worship (extremists) , it should come as no surprise that the woke fools eventually carry their lies as far as they will go by allowing the extremists to “prove” how spectacular they are. Of course, those extremists do what extremists always do–kill, steal, and destroy.
Sane people know that extremists are dangerous lunatics and that freedom-loving, law-abiding Americans are not, but the woke crowd never self-assess enough to see that they’re believing a pack of lies.
The plan is working perfectly. Kill Afghanistan to deflect attention from election audits.
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Austin is a pig and an incompetent. He talks about “readiness”. Ahole. He coerced my children, active military officers, to get the clotshot last month. They had no viable way to avoid it. I just found out today. Two who already had had Covid got very sick. Diagnosed with “Covid” again a week later. What a coincidence. These two tell me that they are okay now (so they tell me). A third stationed elsewhere has been having migraines.
Prayers for your family.
This is what happens when your government has no accountability.
There is not one single competent person in the Biden administration including the President and Vice-president. There is no way this nation can survive till 2024 with this kind of ineptitude.
You would think they would have been looking at contingencies that would include the Taliban taking the country. Maybe they have a commitment from the Taliban that they would keep the embassy but that’s doubtful.
It is unimaginable that they did not consider that in their analysis which tells me they never even thought about the impact to women and girls in their assessments of the Taliban regime.
If you want to talk about a real JV team, look no further than Austin and Milley. They do not have a clue and their answers are just word salad.
If only Milley had completed giving the Afghan army training in diversity, inclusion, and critical race theory and helped them with “Gender transition in the military”.
These idiots were chosen only because of their ideology, and their priorities are upside down.
That Austin character playing the role of Defense Secretary has Pure Evil written all over his face and Milly has the eyes of a Dufus
There is a vast difference between stupidity and treason. This was NOT stupidly
Wish General Patton was around to put these two Marxists Clowns in their place (which is not the Military).
Sec. Austin and Gen. Milley speak with great authority and confidence. They act as if they have everything under control.
You can see how they got their positions.
They exude confidence and competence.
But . . . the truth is . . . they are only actors on a stage. They don’t know what they’re talking about, and they don’t know what they’re doing.
They remind me of other “experts” that we see all the time nowadays on tv: the vaccine doctors telling us a vaccine is safe even though its long term, permanent side effects CANNOT BE KNOWN at this point.
I think we’ve had enough of these people.
It amazes me that they closed the airforce base before everyone was evacuated.
They lost the war.
Next, we’re in danger of a hostage crisis that will make the Iranian hostage crisis look like nothing.
Listening to authoritative talking experts is leading us to disaster.
Austin needs to be fired, and Milley? Milley needs a Court Martial. A *straight up* Court Martial. Not kidding.
I have to ask: Why are CNN and the rest of the MSM turning on Biden?
Who’s waiting in the wings? Something is truly off here.
The clown company that runs the USG now is so hopelessly inept that it’s difficult to think things can get worse.
They can.
Kudos to Rep Doug Lamborn for asking serious questions rather than just performing for the cameras for a sound bite like some other Reps.
Austin and Milley will likely remain in their jobs and even be rewarded for being obedient woke sycophants to Biden. One is well known for participating in the politically inspired “white rage” propaganda and the other wears outrageous plastic face shields and masks when greeting people on foreign visits even though he’s fully vaccinated. Strange to see a Secretary of Defense supporting the Dems COVID fear machine so openly.
IMO, they have both shamed and failed the USA at home and abroad and caused considerable misery that could have been avoided.
Fired?
Are you out of your MIND?
Both are members of the protected classes: Black and LGBTQ.
You racist homophobes.
Started to watch and had to stop. I cannot listen to meaningless rhetoric that amounts to dancing around the mulberry bush. Austin is nothing more than an Affirmative Action Appointment and Milley is as cheesy as they come. Both are incompetent and demonstrate the that the military promotion system is woke, based on political correctness, and not on merit.
I can’t listen to these fraudulent losers anymore. Listening to these stunningly incompetent pieces of S run their mouths is literally vomit inducing
Milley and Austin are Chu Hoi. They work for the PLA.
I just want to see Austin escorted out of Pentagon yelling DINDONUFFINS!
We Americans follow our laws, and our Lord Jesus, our leaders do not, since they don’t, that means war right?
I find it impossible to believe that our leadership (“The Fourth Branch”) was caught off guard to this magnitude. We have had people on the ground in Afghanistan for 40+ years. No way they didn’t see this coming. I believe that what is happening there is exactly what they want to happen. Sundance has been warning us for weeks that something monumentally bad was heading our way. I believe this is part of it.
Keep your eyes open everyone. They want us all focused on this bright, shiney object for a reason.
We Americans follow the laws, and our Lord Jesus, our Leaders do not, don’t this mean war?
They deserve to be publicly HORSEWHIPPED!!!
Boy has the optics of the Biden administration gone terribly wrong.
Imcompetence doesn’t come close of the abilities of these men. Miley and Austin particularly give near incomprehensible testimony as their mouths move but their brains are befuddled, confused and ignorant of the gravity of Afghan situation. The embassy would remain and support programs for women and childre under threat of Taliban subjugation? ARE THEY REALLY THAT STUPID?
Yes they are.
And then some. Politics not ability in warfare got them where they are.
Their attentions are elsewhere, their oaths forgotten. The degradation of our military through these incompetents will cost us everything at some point. Our young men and women serving are being poorly served and definitely not led. Disgraces to their uniform/positions doesn’t even begin to describe what they are.
Their “attention” is on going after conservative “White” people in the USA and destroying them for the Bolsheviks “running” the USA now
White people are the violent domestic terrorists is what the Pentagon is focused on now. Perhaps the waves of unvetted Afghan refugees being flown in along with the flood of invaders across our border might be of assistance in that endevor.
Without a doubt. A rabid dog turned on its own people. I used to believe until recently that our brass and their charges would stand the gap for us. But they are no longer “ours”.
They have enemy owners and allegiances now. Terrifying.
Valid point. Seems white people know how to spot BS and folks on their incompetence.
Traitors to the country – and they should suffer the long-established penalty for it.
This is something I’ve noticed with the military since my 2nd Lt days back in the 1990’s. They speak in a nearly incomprehensible gibberish of metaphor, euphemism, and vague terms that can be interpreted just about any way you like because they’re trying to protect their political viability. It has grown worse as I moved on from the military in the early 2000’s, and during Bush’s presidency, I often compared them to the incompetent generals that Lincoln had to deal with.
Lots of Liberals are, naturally, trying to shift blame to Trump. But this video, along with multiple statements by Biden over the past few months, shows that this is nothing less than total incompetence.
People like this are why we were there for 20 years and accomplished absolutely nothing.
Thank you for your service … in spite of your incompetent leaders.
The language is “Bureaucratese” – all of the words make sense but none of the sentences do.
I used to work for a guy who would hear stuff like that and say, “Many words get spoken, but very little gets said.”
Yes, generating a lot of heat and little light.
Sec Austin has it down to a science, as if someone counseled him years ago to answer only in 15 words or less. And if his inquisitors ask for more information, he just gives them another 15 words or less which is always delivered within the short timeframe necessary to flick his mic on and off.
Also known as CYA.
Buzzword Bingo!
AKA protecting their asses.
And the federal bureaucracy is filled to the brim with mental midgets like these.
If they aren’t F’ing stupid, they’re corrupt as hell.
This sounds like me talking to my manager when I’m having a bad sales week. Say some vague, positive generalities just to get off the phone.
ISR, ISR, ISR “Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance”
What happened to “bomb” and “evacuate” (for americans).
I am finished giving these idiots an out with the incompetence defense. No longer. These people are supposedly the “best and brightest” so we MUST assume the outcome is as desired. They wanted it to go down like this.
Welcome we’re open all day! Of course it is all done purposely. Just like the Democrat governors killing old people in nursing homes. Any 5 year old kid would have more sense but what do we get? We have a governor in NY that killed 15,000 seniors and that is a conservative estimate being pushed out of office for hurting some women’s feelings not mass murder. There are 6 other governors that did the exact same thing and not a peep about it. Old people just don’t vote the way Democrats want them to anymore so toodles. Same with the vaccine- why are they forcing children and people that have recovered? Why are they hiding their so called data that shows all of the deaths and injuries from the shot? It is time for lots more people to wake up and realize what is really going on. All of it is done to subdue, humiliate, steal, destroy, kill and crush patriotic Americans.
You are so right. They were warned over & over & disregarded everything.
I don’t see why people can’t see that we are looking at the enemies in this clip& that the Chi Com virus is a biological weapon.
Makes me wonder WHAT is actually being taught at our Military Academies … what indeed?
Read Lohmeier’s book. It’s scary-bad.
They have NO defense. They are EVIL, guilty of treason and should be sentenced to DEATH, with NO right of appeal, followed by summary execution.
I know that they’ll just be replaced by 2 other incompetent, woke, boot lickers but man I hope these 2 in particular get their’s.
Bingo. You get the one, you get the other.
These 2 will never get punished. They will get accolades. They did their job. Besides, so what if ‘the graveyard of empires’ just cost us trillions and tens of thousands of lives. ‘What difference does it make?’
So grateful to Hillary for summing up the abyss of the Leftist mind in one pithy rhetorical question.
Obama got rid a lot of good mid level officers during his 8 years. This is what is left.
The destruction of our military was and is his goal.
We know this is his unelected stolen 3rd term.
Biden does not know what day it is most of the time.
Austin and Milley should be so embarrassed at their incompetence that they both resign.
Milley speaks as though they rolled him out of bed during a drunken stupor…does not make any sense, just mumbling!
That’s his way of disrespecting Congress … disrespecting the People. He actually believes HE is in charge, and all this questioning is below him. That he outranks all these elected officials.
He and his rotten deep State compatriots laugh behind closed doors at the performance artistry
Yes, they do. They laugh in ‘their Secret Circles’ as they burn down whole countries. It is what they were born for.
They are focused on being “woke” and imposing mandatory COVID vaccines, critical race theory, LGBTQ training and transgender surgery on our troops, instead of military strategy.
Remove
Yes they are. That’s why Obama wants them in charge.
I don’t believe this was a matter of incompetence, or even negligence. I believe it was a matter of total apathy, combined with their desire to prop up WHATEVER course of action their feckless leader was considering.
They KNEW the Taliban were growing stronger by every minute.
They KNEW the Afghan government and troops did not have the wherewithal to face the Taliban resist the Taliban advances, let alone actually defeat them.
They simply DO NOT CARE what happens to the people of Afghanistan.
They only cared about how it would LOOK in the eyes of the American public if they said “Hmmmm, yeah… that whole country will fall faster than Saigon when we pull out, but we’re doing it anyway.”
They know it.
The press knows it.
And WE know it.
So why don’t we just admit it? Once again, the American FARCE of “Nation Building” FAILED because the very notion of trying to convert an entire population to a “Western” mentality WILL NEVER WORK.
I was shocked at the way Jake Tapper attacked Blinkin (I think it was him) about this debacle. Maybe they don’t want to go down with this ship. Could it be possible that at some point the media would realize how stupid this administration is? I never thought it possible but it sure would be amazing is that happened.
I think we could have given the women much a better chance against Taliban if the women were given a handgun and a hand grenade. For 10%-20%, some scoped 223 varmit rifles.