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!
Fubar is right.
https://www.militarytimes.com/video/2021/08/16/chaos-at-kabul-airport/
This is a video of what has happened at the Kabul airfield over the past 2 days. People were hanging on to the sides and climbing on the planes as they departed. Six Afghan people died from falling from the planes.
What a sad scene.
Where were our great intelligence agencies/s when the Taliban was strengthening right outside the gates of Kabul? Maybe they’ve been too busy conducting surveillance on Trump supporters and fabricating threats of domestic extremism.
If only this Kabul airport video could be used by the fake news media as propaganda for the lefty cause, ANY leftist cause. The fact that it hasn’t been blasted on every news network is very telling. People hanging onto the wings of planes is sensational and sure to get attention and ratings. The Biden Administration —and our entire defense and intelligence apparatus either REALLY messed up or….there’s something else going on.
I don’t think this was a mistake at all. China wants the Taliban in power to help them secure strategic border areas between India and Pakistan. India is an economic threat to China. China wants to control India and its production of goods. Biden (along with a large number of our Congressmen) is China’s puppet. IF our defense intelligence agencies DID warn Biden that Taliban control of Kabul was imminent, Biden likely ignored them and instead followed the orders of his Chinese masters.
China doesn’t care if the Taliban tortures, rapes, and oppresses the Afghani people and neither does Biden or all the other bought and paid for puppets in DC. (Mitch McConnell and so many others are remarkably quiet about the travesty in Afghanistan. Gee, I wonder why./s). It’s all about kickbacks, perks, and protecting their own corrupted backsides.
Ive been reading about all the ways that China and Iran will benefit if the U.S. stands down and allows the Taliban to retake that entire region.
China is calling the shots in DC. I cannot accept the idea that the Afghanistan debacle is a result of mere incompetence. While crooks like Biden and McConnell wouldn’t exist without the mere stupidity and complacency of self-serving DC bureaucrats, they know exactly what they stand to gain or lose in any given situation. Foreign policy has been a profitable game to them for decades. Now China is calling in her notes and her favors. She has them —and by extension US—by the balls.
China —with funding by DC —caused and then mismanaged COVID19.
China allegedly played a part in the 2020 election steal.
I miss Donald J. Trump. God forgive us and help us.
Don’t forget the opium trade!
Meanwhile, back in Brooklyn, NY the daughter of the scumbag Afghan “president” who just absconded with over $150 million taxpayer dollars and more, reveals that she’s just your average Brooklyn artist/film maker.
Can someone please explain to me how this woman feels it’s okay for her to dox herself and reveal to the world where she lives??
Why is she so confident that nothing is gonna happen to her, given that she’s the daughter of one of the most wanted men on earth?
I just don’t get it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9904783/Daughter-Afghan-president-fled-Kabul-living-Brooklyn-artist-filmmaker.html
All done purposely and Odumbo is pulling the Chinese puppet’s strings. That is our money that scumbag left with and the NSA can tell you if they wanted to what you were doing 16 months on a specific day, where you were, who you talked to, if you took a crap at 7:14 AM on that date, what exactly was said when you spoke to someone and someone is going to tell me they don’t know where he is. Nonsense. They can find anyone anywhere in the world in less than a half hour. They could have found Bin Laden easily if they wanted to but they did not want to. This was all planned just the way it went and since Biden takes the heat for it no problem for Odumbo. Odumbo is going full steam ahead to destabilize every white country on earth that is the globalist plan.
I don’t like Shapiro, but he’s right –
Milley should remove his decorations on his chest. It is embarrasing. There is no bravery or brain there. Leave the stage, you moron.
Milley went to Princeton, not West Point. Another damn Ivy Leaguer in a high government position. That explains his wokeness. Every time I see him with the decorations all over his uniform I’m reminded of “fake valor”. How is he any different than all those fake soldiers who buy the rank insignia, uniforms and medals from military surplus stores and pose as Special Ops and Navy Seals? I’m sure those lying fakes have more spine and willingness to fight than Marshmallow Milley!
He’s like those old North Korean generals covered in insignia and medals that have never been to war.
My Dad was CBI under Col. Merrill, served in the Air Lift, Presidential Commendation for Moon Landing. Retired 1971 Rank Master Sgt. He would be pretty pissed at these bafoons. Yes, Milley s/b court marshalled and branded a coward.
Milley SHOULD BE DEMOTED TO PVT AND ATTEND A COURT MARSHAL, HE DID NOTHING AS HE SAW NOTHING. TELLING JOE ALL IS OK, JUST LIKE KREBS, 2020 MOST SECURE ELECTION , SAW NOTHING EITHER. BY DESIGN
Bull. It’s not capacity, it’s will.
WHY DID BIDEN SEND IN 6,000 TROOPS? TO PARTY IT UP ? OR SIT IT OUT WHILE THE TALIBAN SHOOT PEOPLE WITH FLAGS.
”Don’t and Can’t” are not words available in the US Military.
Gen. Milley is the Gen. McClellan of our time. Fire his fat ass.
The full intel agencies domestic and military should be disbanded and rebuilt from the ground up. These are the same posers who said the Hunter Laptop was Russian disinformation. These are the people who are keeping American safe or want us defeated?
This is Benghazi on steroids !
That is the look on a leftists face who said all the right things and checked the right boxes when he realizes his fellow leftists will destroy him anyway.
So, we will have to pay for every Hostage?
Is that where this is going?
It’s probably the plan. Obama’s plan to create a caliphate.
THE BRITS are doin it MORON.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/justin-trudeau-i-spoke-with-hillary-not-biden-about-afghanistan/
Trudeau speaks to $hilary not Dementia Joe. Jeez, it gets worse.
Pelosi is resigning and Hillary will be installed as President. Kamala? Who knows.
Biden is talking to himself.
Because Biden and his Generals are liars.
From thedoc00:
“When these a-holes closed Bagram, made Kabul the rally point and withdrew the major combat assets, they knew darn well they just recreated the Alamo with no hope of a military solution..”
This deserves a laser focus; I think it’s a critical, if not the critical bit of context while watching the military industrial complex now turn on Biden. Things are very wrong, and as big as it seems, events keep proving it’s even bigger still. We’ve known that for a while. It’s accelerating.
Biden admin moved to dismantle protections for citizens trapped overseas months before Kabul’s fall: memo
Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR) was created during Trump administration
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-dismantled-ccr-kabul
shooting a woman for not wearing a burka
shooting Ashlie Babbitt for crawling through a window
Seems like if you’re black, competence is the least of anyone’s concerns
Milley is Black?
Why isn’t screwing America considered treason…
Laura Logan to Tucker
“[The Real Powers in DC] have the ability to change [things on the ground in Afghanistan] they CHOSE this outcome.”
Our Overlords are choosing for you. EVERYTHING.
Just like the French and Russian Aristocraps.
Until the Aristocraps had all choice TAKEN from them.
That’s always how it goes.
The longer you deny what you really have to do, the longer the only choices are theirs.
Take these two clowns out and hang them. Then go to each Federal intelligence and security agency and give the same treatment to the top ten officials. No exceptions. Disgrace to the flag, the nation and the uniform.
You can only respond to a any question with “(We) don’t have the capability to…” IF you decided to do nothing. Otherwise a true leader will demand that a solution be found that will provide the “capability.” This Secretary of Defense is a perfect fit for this administration. He is a loser like his boss, this president.
This is our SECDEF? God help us.
Looks and sounds like one of these Tinpot, former Colonel’s, now President via Coup from a shithole African Nation.
This man is a buffoon. He should be passing out warm hand towels in the rest room of a fancy restaurant.
What did you all expect when Obama retired all our Combat-competent Generals and replaced them with affirmative-actioned SJW Generals?
They’re incapable of anything other than toeing the woke line of useless posturing.
Poseurs … the whole lot of em. God SAVE America. Seriously … God is our only hope.
Wrong! The US does have the capability; it just doesn’t have competent people in place with the political backbone to do it!
In case it hasn’t already been posted
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/breaking-british-para-troops-running-vehicle-patrols-center-kabul-extract-trapped-uk-citizens-biden-abandons-trapped-americans/
May all the denizens of the IC, Pentagon and White House burn for eternity.
Apache pilot at Kabul International Airport:
“It’s 106 miles to Peshawar, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s daylight, and we’re wearing NVGs.”
Gunner:
“Hit it.”
Just start droning them, their families and villages. It will be a swift condescension. But it will take men and women with fortitude, but you won’t find that in the Biden administration or our current crop of military leaders.
It’s gong to take patriots unleashed to fix this, and the bastards in DC are too scared to let us do that. Because they knw the next step will be to remove them from their ivory towers.
Yeah, it takes a real man to drone strike children.
How did this illiterate POS get put in charge of the military? Obama! There is a reason that POS could not produce a birth Certificate
I have a hard time not believing that THIS is the plan.
Evacuate the Embassy and all the State Dept. employees safely … hand the keys over to the Talliebannnhhnnn … leave 10k American hostages behind, and then $$ buy them back with more pallets of $$ in bundles of $100’s … C-17 after C-17 … loaded with cash. Fund the Caliphate … Fund the Arab Spring. What the Left TRIED to do in Egypt, Libya and Syria has now come to fruition in Afghanistan
This is the American-apology plan. Apologizing for our high Christian horse. Apologizing for invading their lands for oil. Apologizing for Democracy. Apologizing for broken treaties with Native Americans … whatever … so here’s another $3.5T in ransom … by EO. Soon America will be a debtor-State begging China for crumbs.
This is what they all learned in Harvard … and at their beach houses.
Evil. Pure Evil
Don’t tell me we don’t have the capability.
Use the tools you have and get the job done.
Get your worthless ass in there and evacuate all Americans.
Jimmy Carter X 50,000
This loser needs to RESIGN immediately, or be FIRED.
The British Paras, over the strong objection of the U.S. Commander, are going door-to-door in Kabul and picking-up their citizens and former employees and transporting them to Kabul airport. So, we don’t have the capability because the Biden administration and its cowards don’t want us to. Hell, we might have a casualty.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/breaking-british-para-troops-running-vehicle-patrols-center-kabul-extract-trapped-uk-citizens-biden-abandons-trapped-americans/
I am a career Combat Arms officer whom after retirement spent 6 years in Afghanistan as Combat Advisor to the Afghan Army as team leader and primarily advisor to Afghan General Officers. I will tell you this debacle rests with the US Generals and the worthless IC people. Ask yourself this, why are so many billions of dollars spent on the IC.? Hell, I advised the Afghan Army in numerous combat operations against the Taliban and do you know how much Intelligence I received from US intelligence, answer ZERO. Oh we can’t release it, it is classified. FU
It’s VERY obvious that BOTH of these incompetent buffoons NEVER learned the 7 P’s……PRIOR PLANNING AND PREPARATION PREVENTS PISS POOR PERFORMANCE. I rest my case, your Honor!
Maybe we could send all the 1,000’s of US Covid Tracers and Trackers to find the ‘American refugees’ and then have all the US Capitol Police with their Gold Medals to guide them to the airport. Such a simple solution!
The US Capitol police would be worried about dying and you know what happens next. The capital police would start crying and then congress would start crying. No one would be able to see through the blur of their tears to find the Americans.
Pathetic.
Another African American that is in his position because of Equity…… not capability……… ‘Help I dont know what to say’
Just tell the fraud elect that those 10k Americans are unvaccinated and want to take the jab. Hell we will see the whole of the military be put on full alert to rescue them then!!!
The same bunch of idiots said we couldn’t respond to Benghazi during the attack. Trump showed them the way; you just have to have LEADERSHIP!!!
That bird brain is a good argument to putting a complete stop to affirmative action and all the diversity nonsense. This guy is clearly just as incompetent and just as much of a buffoon as Beijing Biden and Heels Up Harris and every other member of this regime. They are just too busy with LGBQxyz and women in combat and men are women and women are men baloney to care about Americans stuck in that rat hole but they will get as many Afghans out as possible. Now the state of Tennessee is building concentration camps for a virus with a 99.9% recovery rate for everyone 70 and under and 99.7% for people over 70.
This is just one more case of when you have morons in charge.
The Taliban is not stupid they know these weekend slut walking feelz boys are weak. Get ready for paying billions to the Taliban in ransom I mean aid and or release of predetermined aid that was set for previous gov.
Meanwhile the British are running thunder road operations getting their people out.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/breaking-british-para-troops-running-vehicle-patrols-center-kabul-extract-trapped-uk-citizens-biden-abandons-trapped-americans/
Pitiful humiliation that will only push more of our enemies to be more combative to get their share of the US humiliation.
Eyes on Iraq, Syria, Taiwan.
Utter nonsense! It wouldn’t take more than a few well placed, damaging bombs to put the Taliban in it’s place. Let them know it will continue until they leave and allow anyone else to leave.
Surprised this woke clownish buffoon didn’t appear with his mask, and Darth Vader face shield. He is a liar. They have the capability. They don’t have the desire, will, courage or leadership. The UK is using paratroopers to get people out.
The CCP has just dropped a few more years off of their timeline to invade the once great nation known as the USofA. It is more important that our armed forces be PC and to know that CRT is the pathway to forgiveness than being a capable fighting force. Good grief, we are doomed.
I feel like saying something really racist. I’ll suffice it to say this guy (defense secretary) doesn’t have a clue about what to do!
Late last night I commented on this article without viewing the video. I just watched it.
This man’s comments begin with “We are doing everything we can . . .” and ends with “I don’t have the capability to extend into Kabul . . .” The reporter, with her last question that suggests that American will now have to rely upon the “goodwill” of the Taliban, has advised the General and the world that the General has stepped into IT and that he is covered in a SHAME as bright and destructive as the sun.
I know that I have neither the stomach or the desire to watch the full video of this abject failure of a defense secretary blow smoke at the American people, which means ME.
Even though every sentient citizen can visualize the possible worst case scenario-outcome of this situation as it now stands — I pray that every American family and every pro-American Afghani family there are well armed, ammunition is stockpiled and they have banded together for the fight — history will record this moment as the time that a first-world nation almost instantly reverted and acknowledged that they had became total cowards, were running from the fight and had betrayed thousands of their men, women and children to possible destruction with little more than an, “Oh well, what can I do, what do expect me to do, I’m only the Secretary of Defense.”
What I heard was the sickening, “Americans, don’t look to us to defend this nation, you’re on your own,” and if our enemies did not hear this they are deaf. I must ask the question, “General Austin when you, a former 82nd Airborne combat general, when you were nominated to be Secretary of Defense were you informed that for this honor to be conferred upon you, would first have to subject yourself to a castration?”
All the Americans stranded in that shit hole country and theses two woke bastards sit in their plush office and lecture the rest of us both of these jackasses need to resign.These two sons of bitches should be tried for treason along with their senile damned fool boss. See what they say when some raghead blows up the pentagon
Worthless clown figure head. Deliver some BS lip service and turn this into a MAJOR DISTRACTION from something much bigger. Please do not misunderstand, there is NO EXCUSE TO LEAVE ANY AMERICAN BEHIND! This is a huge distraction from something about to unfold, and the focus for MSM will stay on Afghanistan.
You fly 4 c-17’s into Kabul airport loaded with troops presto there’s your expeditionary force. Not rocket science general.
There are already more than enough military on the ground on the airport. 6500 I believe, to move into the city and get the job done. I admit that a C-5 full of special forces would greatly add to the mix.