Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chief’s Chairman Mark Milley held a Pentagon press briefing today about the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan. [Full Presser Here] As the Taliban has taken full control over the country and capital, the U.S. presence in Kabul has been reduced to securing the airport as a temporary fortress, and telling U.S. citizens to try and get there.
When asked about the Taliban surrounding the airport, constructing checkpoints and the inability of Americans to reach safety for evacuation, Defense Secretary Austin said the military “don’t have the capability to…extend operations.” The follow-up question was then about the U.S. essentially having to negotiate safe-passage with the Taliban… and rather than say, “Yes, that is accurate“, the question left Secretary Austin speechless. WATCH:
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Ooof… THAT, my friends, is exactly what FUBAR looks like!
Sir, you forgot your pussy hat.
He used the term “deconflict,” that substitutes for the pink hat.
I didn’t catch whether you deconflict before or after you retrograde
Anyone?
But we have to understand white rage…
It’s me listening to this guy.
Milley’s wearing it.
He and Milley scowl at the cameras like they’re all business. Someone want to tell them you need a reputation for that bluff to work?
And the entire world is watching seeing the same things we do!
Ever hear of a “can do” attitude? The Bid3n Administration, like the 0bama Administration, has a “can’t do” attitude.
It isn’t “can’t do”….It’s ” won’t do”.
both are valid…
I like the moniker.
that’s one of the many reasons I love the WWII movie, “In Harm’s Way” . . .
“CAN DO!”
Great movie!
We’ve seen what he Milley and Biden can do. We te good thanks.
Typical Democrat plan of action implementation. Every action is politically driven with spur of the moment action and no consideration for possible catastrophic consequences. But then again, like all things that the Democrats screw up, they and their MSM lemmings will do a CYA and try their best to project the “collateral damage” for their own actions on someone else.
Have we noticed yet, the pin pointing of blame and cya is directed by many at the BIDEN administration from surprisingly varied directions and groups. Have we heard any complaints directed at the Harris/Obama part of the Biden/Harris bumper sticker?. Are we seeing a ‘keep Harris clean’ subtlety. “Biden Bad-Maybe Harris Better…”
https://therightscoop.com/watch-taliban-fires-gunshots-to-disperse-crowds-outside-kabul-airport/
I believe.
If am fully aware of the MASSIVE election fraud that is pervasive in all 50 States, but given what is transpiring, in fair elections, the DemonRats would not get elected in one hundred years. THE ROT!!!!
But they will if we don’t get rid of the F’ng machines…
Secretary Lloyd has no business in his position…..along with everyone else in this epic disaster of a presidential administration.
Entirely designed to fail.
If you have ever been “in” you would understand that Lloyd is just a glorified Mess Sargeant.
@JohnCardillo
It’s pointless to critique Biden vis a vis his words today because he didn’t write them and doesn’t understand them.
The man is barely alive.
I beg to differ . . . I think it is entirely the point to critique Biden because HE is the guy in the Oval Office . . . every critique of him is a critique of all the people that made it possible, from Mitch McConnell, Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, Ronna McDaniel and so many other repugnant Republicans along with all of the Democrats, of course, such as Nancy Pelosi . . .
every critique of Biden – a “cc” to all of the above –
it’s theirs
(I wish we could inundate the lot of them with Western Union telegrams)
Yup, a damned idiot who doesn’t know a thing about the real enemy, just some Marxist hogwash.
Get these commies out! Ridicule their ineptitude, same with that State Dept guy, he needs reamed also, the one who advised the Taliban to have an inclusive government. As if, does he have any idea the ideology of the Taliban?
Wade, let us not forget ‘Trans-Sexual inclusion” in the military, along Critical Race Theory instruction, Gender Neutral Bathrooms. All of these important issues for our warfighting military leaders and troops. Climate change? LOL
The military has been turned into anything BUT for what the military was intended.
Just how long will the US military allow itself to be defined by adolescent imbeciles like Austin and Milley? At some point, with 10,000 + American citizens trapped behind these wild eyed savages, the military, en masse, is going to own this.
Heh, so many enlisted in the military for the promise of job training, getting college paid for and gender surgery.
A lot of personnel would be gobsmacked to discover that they MAY have to be exposed to and participate in actual warfare.
Its not what what they signed up for! /s
It’s everybody else’s fault but he made the right decision and chaos was unavoidable but he said it was avoidable last week.
Of course we have the damn capability!!!!! What the hell is that guy talking about?
What the absolute freaking hell?! We don’t leave Americans and allies in the lurch.
What a disgusting POS our government has become.
without bases to use within reasonable strike range we are limited in our support…too bad they gave up Bagram…it would have come in handy
When President Trump gets back in, and he better, he better do an Obama and fire all Top Brass, get them out, and get some fighters and strategists with a lick of common sense!
Damn right Kaco… And not just the Military… Each and every position throughout the entire government cess pool …
All the way down to the janitors…
The Culling. Make it epic.
Prosecute. Remove their pension or prevent them taking any sit on a board of MIC.
I sure hope that those who get out also resolve to protect the american people from the drones who will be left in the service.
All that’s really left is for the Taliban to start imprisoning, hunting down and killing the American’s there. What an absolute catastrophe and S*** show. I want to say sad, but that these American’s remained and put one gram of faith in an administration that was treasonously and criminally elected, well. I’ll just say this was completely foreseeable and I would have been gone from any precarious place in the world that was relying on the competency of the government for safety on Nov 4th, 2020.
The fact is these Americans over there are no doubt Biden voters or they would not be over there in the first place. They are no different than any other Biden sheep voter being led up slaughterhouse shoots.
Unfortunately for the Biden “Useful idiot” sheep in Afghanistan, their slaughterhouse happens to be in full operation first
Plenty have been there for years in support of the military. They are Americans and we don’t leave our own behind…..everyone was\ is angry over Benghazi. This is Benghazi x 1000000000.
They stayed for the money to be made.
President TRUMP is up on Newsmax next with Greg Kelly.
Is he saying he resigned. Because that is what it sounded like to me
Definition of resigned
: feeling or showing acceptance that something unwanted or unpleasant will happen or cannot be changed
In a Trump admin, the attitude would have been “Let’s Roll!”. In
the Biden administration its ” Let’s roll over and play dead”.
Biden is dead. Ever see weekend at Bernie’s?
6,000 US troops.
And we CAN’T do anything? DON’T have the capability?
Never thought I’d see the United States SURRENDER . Let alone surrender WITHOUT A FIGHT.
This feckless administration, and their emasculated military leaders, disgrace our country and dishonor those who have fought to keep freedom on our shores and protect those trying to create it in the nations of the world.
I am utterly disgusted by Biden and his “cabinet”.
Far from being a COMMANDER-in-chief, he is a poseur, a puppet, a coward-in-truth.
American must be insulted, because Joe must do what China told him to do OR EXPOSED for stealing the election. China told Joe to do this, and he did it.
Imagine China saying yea, we stole the election and put Biden in.. IT wouldnt hurt China 1 single bit. We would go into complete Civil War chaos.
Joe took a deal, and traded prison for the complete collapse of America.
don’t know the website, but the article helps illustrate China was the spying an impeachment, Just like China is why Joe did this symbolic statement of America’s kneeling.
https://clarion.causeaction.com/2021/08/03/perkins-coie-argues-their-partners-are-stateless-to-avoid-lawsuit-from-carter-page/
This is cosmic Karma coming home to roost in a big way. You really can’t flip off God forever and expect no consequences for yourself. LOL
FUBAR it is! And now I know what a bag of hammers looks like.
This is the Mother of All Fubars!
Absolutely epic.
I couldn’t bring myself to watch the video I don’t think my heart could take anymore today.
I so appreciate Sundance bravely watching it and passing on his assessment, and I trust his assessment in these convoluted areas
better than my own.
Makes one wonder who compromised the identities of our agents in China several years ago.
I’ll go with the Secretary of State whose illegal email server was in contact with that Chinese military front company.
Cant post the Twitter link but Posobiec is saying he is hearing Milley might step down after evac is complete to save Austin.
Also said he is hearing he misses PT although there was bad blood.
Good, then he’ll have time to study white rage up close and personal.
This was all planned. They know the majority of patriotic Americans would be outraged when we actually see what theyre doing. They also know the majority of patriotic Americans just so happened to be mostly of a Caucasian background too. They probably did a lot of research and ran numbers on many hypothetical scenarios. Including the one on how to use covid to enslave us.
This has all been thought out already. Dont believe that the left is turning its back on Biden. Theyre not. Its part of whatever they already planned and they can do whatever they want to taunt us because they know they control the outcome of the elections.
He shouldn’t be allowed to “step down”. He should be arrested and face a court-martial, with loss of all benefits.
Wow.
Thanks
45 should grant his wish in 2024 by bringing him up on sedition charges.
***** that treasonous, feckless POS. Retire? He should do everyone and himself a favor and actually fall on a sword.
yeah..yeah…yeah Milley… but we watched your ‘other’ statements just a short while back…
But POTUS made him walk to the church…..He should retire..right now…maybe he could save
some of his reputation if he knows about Election fraud and comes clean after he retires then he can get
his wish and 45 can come back.
Boy they really use Poso. As a controlled leaker source -BS, are we supposed feel for Milley now – don’t believe it IMHO
I guarantee you this: 45 would inform the Taliban he is holding them personally responsible for the safety of the Americans in Afghanistan, and if any of them is harmed he will come back to Kabul and kill them all.
When the movie is made about this it will be “The Biden Effect”. Everything is effected by his stupidity. Or should I say infected by his stupidity.
It’ll be made by Disney as a slapstick musical comedy especially for their Chinese audience. /s
and his corruption, please..
Alex, I’ll take “Diversity Hire Consequences 101” for $100 please …
First come, first served at the airport. So any American who can make it to the airport in one piece will have to compete with throngs of Afghans (mostly men) to get home????????????????????????????????? Yes. Yes, they will.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/18/u-s-embassy-kabul-first-come-first-serve-basis-stranded-americans/
This is happening because Biden Didnt Win. Our country is under the control of a hostile entity. Covid and the compromised vote machines was and is being utilized to rig the elections. We are prisoners in our own country.
The Tarrant County Miracle…This is in Texas!!
remember Lindell’s Red Team and the symposium saying:
‘as soon as a Dominion employee ran for office in Texas, a county finally went Blue’
similar results.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/texas-county-goes-blue-first-time-since-1964-hiring-former-executive-smartmatic-elections-administrator/
Yes, the link you provided is for Tarrant County. The same county
Does that mean their machines weren’t compromised like all the others… or did that County have election officials who believed in doing their jobs accurately and honestly???
Tarrant county goes all Republican down ballot except for the Republican President?
“The Tarrant County Miracle”
Seems pretty unlikely – the people who vote straight ticket Republican (which is a thing in Texas – one circle votes the entire ballot for the party of choice) so that all the down ballot races win handily, including the tax assessor and all the judges … but the president at the top LOSES?
Surrender is the friend of the 55 I.Q. affirmative action knuckle dragger. No thinking required, like his master, Bai Din.
JesseKellyDC
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I’m ready for President Kamala. If we’re gonna get screwed this hard in front of the whole world, let’s at least get someone in there with experience.
That’s funny. Only laugh I’ve had all day.
It is funny!
why that man doesn’t look like he hasn’t slept in 3 days and has been holed up in crisis center surviving on coffee and pizza is a testament to how far our military has fallen …
if I was a Congress critter I would attend the press conference and ask … “Sec Austin, when was the last time you slept ?” and if the answer wasn’t over 48 hours … I’d be sure the paint the room blue with my response …
GAO: Afghan embassy costs $150M over budget
07/09/2014
https://thehill.com/policy/international/211726-gao-afghan-embassy-costs-150m-over-budget
As of May 2014, construction costs have increased 24 percent from the original $625.4 million projection to $773.9 million, the report found. The project, expected to be completed by the end of this summer, now likely won’t be done until July 2016.
The GAO attributed the costs and delays to increased staff requirements, risk planning, construction in a war zone, contractor delays and new shipping routes for materials through Pakistan.
In 2010 and 2011, the Department of State awarded two contracts totaling $625.4 million for the design and construction of temporary and permanent offices and housing at the diplomatic compound, including an office annex, apartment building, cafeteria, recreation center, perimeter security and parking facilities.
But the annex must now be built for additional capacity. The new office expansion will include 1,237 desks, a nearly 60 percent increase from the original plan, and space for 661 beds, up by about 50.
“It is difficult to determine whether current projects and existing facilities will meet future embassy needs,” the report said.
Seems that Austin has declared our troops hostages. He declared they can’t leave the airport. We have a few thousand there or on the way. The Taliban has extensive weaponry, the Afghan Air Force, and who knows what that we left, so they may well have the ability to prevent air operations at the airport. If the Taliban takes out a plane ot two, we will cut off flights. Then, our troops can be cut off, starved out and overrun.
During the Obama days, I was concerned that he would start a silly war, such as in Syria, and exercise his near unilateral power to surrender. I would imagine it would start like this, and lead to a tertiary situation with a larger power.
This fat clown is a race-bating Democrat coward.
Somebody has been promoted WAYYYYYY above his paygrade.
American citizens will be tortured or worse, and these people need to be held accountable no matter how high up they are.
Im pointing my finger at you, 0BAMA.
You have to wonder if our domestic airspace is compromised now, due to reverse engineering all equipment left behind “on purpose” in exchange for 2020 election hack.
We learned at the Lindell event the connection logs (2018 and 2020 vote changes) are still on the machines. until Dominion schedules a security update and walks in and deletes the logs.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/08/china-may-align-itself-with-taliban-to-exploit-afghanistans-rare-earth-metals/
Only correction I would make to the headline is the removal of the word “may.” Otherwise, yeah, China and the Taliban are going to become BFF’s as unholy alliances around the world grow, while America shrinks.
From Decadence to Collapse. As predicted, and on schedule.
You can’t fight mother nature.
(see Ecclesiastes 3:1)
These guys would have surrended to the Japanese on 12/8/41. And then tried to spin that as a victory.
Hiding in the basement and when finally confronted about it on the 12th would have said, “That happened four days ago!”
Democrats and Progressives put everyone at risk. Not just the American people but the whole world is now suffering in one way or another by the Democrats and Progressives. At least some countries had hope as America stood for freedom and a future. Right now she stands overwhelmed and embarrassed. Its Jimmy Carter on steroids.
Let this sink in . The most powerful military on the planet is beaten by a bunch of terrorists ? America has the best equipped,best munitions ,anything a military could possibly have and America can’t protect its citzens,or property ?
STUNNING: Woke General Milley Claims Taliban Is Not Interfering at Kabul Airport as White House Lashes Out at Taliban for Interfering at Airport
During my time in the Navy, if I said something like what he said, I would get some serious ass chewing and ordered to make it happen no matter how as long as gets done
Indeed. You don’t say can’t do.
Read this article as a refresher.
Payoff 2.0 is coming.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2016/08/05/heres-the-iranian-video-of-hostages-for-pallets-of-money-cnn-and-washington-post-claim-doesnt-exist/
So much incomeptence in one administration! This is what happens when you concern yourself with skin color as opposed to the character of a person! While these nutjobs were concerned about BLM garbage and white supremacy their dumb butts should have been making an exit plan. They deserved to be mocked every day for the rest of their miserable lives.
In earlier days such a display of incompetence would have resulted in an execution……carried out by the soldier. We just need to drag this M/F out and find a lamp post and be done with it.
The three Anglo-Afghan wars are all in the history books which the United States could have used as a guide. The British Empire during the 19th century looked around the world after defeating Napoleon and decided that China would be it’s number one competition. In order to secure trade and neuter China’s abilities to confront the British Empire, Britain decided to engage in the Opium wars. The route from Afghanistan through India was cleared along with five Chinese ports. Britain brought the Chinese work force to its knees with Afghan opium while securing trade routes for the Empire. Then the first of three Anglo-Afghan wars ended in 1842 with a British brigade massacred in the Kyber pass. By the time the last conflict ended around 1919, the British Empire had been drained from World War One and didn’t have too much manpower for the fight. The Afghans in the first Anglo-Afghan war appeared docile until they weren’t. They do not play by Queensbury rules there. The United States would have been better off grabbing Osama Bin Laden in 2001 and gotten the hell out of Afghanistan. The Taliban simply gave refuge to one party, Bin Laden and his gang. It’s not like everyone is lined up to live in that hell hole. Long term, China might become the next victim if that nation gets entangled there.
We really have a 3 front battle underway.
And each front has direct pressure points the good guys can apply.
#1) Vaccine Front – Pressure points are Demand to know what the spike proteins are doing in the body and if ADE is occurring. Demand more autopsies by independent honest 3rd party groups, Continue we will not comply movement. Continue pushing for more and more Ivermectin vs jab studies.
Motto – Autopsies Don’t Lie
#2) Election Fraud Front – Pressure points are getting more Red Sates with Red State Governors and Congress to open up Forensic Audits at county and or state level. Get 5-10 of these underway and the heat rises quite a bit.
Motto – What are they afraid of?
#3) Afghanistan and the Southern Border Crisis – Pressure points are #1 – 100% of the Americans left behind MUST come home safely, no excuses. #2 – We don’t want unvetted and potential Taliban sympathizers relocated to US as we have plenty of unvetted illegal coming across the border already.
Motto – Americans First, then the Afghans with No Person Left Behind.
These three fronts with their individual pressure points MUST be hammered home every day, all day to the point they become a tsunami or like a chant that just keeps building.
It is time for Truth
This current SecDef is a complete moron, IMO … and we’re still allowed to have an opinion in this Country, yes??
He’s an affirmative action politician in a military uniform. His entire military career has been marked by mediocrity, zero results (check his CENTCOM history), and zero intellect. And Milley isn’t any better …
President Trump would NEVER have left an American in peril in a foreign country. obama and biden could care less about Americans.
His administration got so many Americans being held captive out of numerous countries when he was in office. They set about the difficult job of doing it and got it done. And, as with all things Trump-related, he got no credit. Only scorn. Four years of peace, and the left has nothing but hate. They are insane and evil, but everyone here knows that.
Better check that. DHS considers any descent terrorism
I know of a person working in DHS. I went to college with this douche. He always impressed me as an opportunistic piece of ?.
Long gone are the Omar Bradley’s, George Patton’s, Douglas McArthur’s, Norman Shwartzkoff…it’s a damned shame! These spineless wonders are nothing more than treasonous political hacks.
you need a refresher on McArthur’s history
You guys should see what is going on in the British Parliament! Biden has done more to destroy the reputation of America in three days then all the damage they “claimed” Trump ever did… and I am not exaggerating.
This is a 7 hour debate, but you can pop through randomly, for example, MP vet here:
The guy above is literally ashamed at Biden’s decision. Can’t even mention America. Says ~aprox~ “defeat is not having the power to help when you are asked to do so, this feels like defeat”.
So Biden went from having the responsibility for an orderly withdrawal to a engineering a DEFEAT. Another MP asks Johnson are you upset that Biden is on vacation during all of this? Johnson replies: “we have to play the cards we are dealt”. Another asks: “Don’t you think t is shameful that Biden blamed the Afghanis for this? Johnson has no answer. Another: “the image of people falling from cargo planes will be with us for the rest of our lives.”
Trump would have been instantly impeached over this… and I probably would have supported it.
America is Back !!! (It is too painful to watch.)
Talk is cheap. And that’s true on both sides of the Atlantic. At least the Brits are having this discussion. More than I can say for the scum in Congress.
The problem is they are having it. Had the withdrawal been organized there would have been no need for a 7 hour shit show in the British Parliament… which is also happening in almost every other parliament in NATO. It is pretty much like having to need to call a meeting in an apartment building about a resident who delectated in the hallway. That person’s reputation gets destroyed and this how America’s reputation gets destroyed. The irony is that the MSM has been saying DJT is destroying America’s reputation… if that was what Trump was ostensibly doing, Biden has surpassed him gargantuanly.
C’mon, Treefolk, did you really NOT see this coming?
Do you really continue to believe that YOU’re NOT Next?
Do you really continue to believe you can save yourself and yours from this Rapacious Aristocracy by Politics without Clausewitz?
How does what you believe differ from what those trapped Americans believed up until last Friday?
WAY too many excellent memes to post here:
MIDWEEK IN PICTURES: AFGHAN BUGOUT EDITION
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/midweek-in-pictures-afghan-bugout-edition.php
I would love to see that on a billboard, especially in the Swamp DC
^^
Billboards Pop Up In Swing State Showing Senile Old Joe Eating Ice Cream While Afghanistan Collapses
Along with the Biden Admin.
I get the idea of the meme but have to say it also infuriates me to see a plane loaded with refugees knowing perhaps tens of thousands of American were left behind. Another example of Americans coming last again.
In the photo, I do not see any females. Is the Taliban sending terrorists to the USA disguised as poor refugees?
In Europe, the majority of illegal aliens that flood Western Europe are mostly males.
Under Sharia, the phrase “women & children first” has never been recognized…
Notice no women in the refugee pic? That’s because Men are faster runners.