The FUBAR in Afghanistan is so large in scope and failure, the Pentagon appears to be throwing the White House under the bus; and they are being considerably obtuse while doing it…. or are they?
If these reports from Daily Mail and Wall Street Journal are accurate, the Pentagon is claiming that Joint Chief’s Chairman General Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Joe Biden about the pending collapse of Afghanistan if 2,500 troops were removed. However, both Milley and Austin are on record only a few weeks before the collapse saying exactly the opposite.
(Via Wall Street Journal) – In his Monday speech defending America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Biden said he would not shrink from his share of responsibility.
That would include his decision to bring home U.S. troops, which was made against the recommendations of his top military generals and many diplomats, who warned that a hasty withdrawal would undermine security in Afghanistan, several administration and defense officials said.
The president’s top generals, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley, urged Mr. Biden to keep a force of about 2,500 troops, the size he inherited, while seeking a peace agreement between warring Afghan factions, to help maintain stability. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who previously served as a military commander in the region, said a full withdrawal wouldn’t provide any insurance against instability.
In a series of meetings leading up to his decision, military and intelligence officials told Mr. Biden that security was deteriorating in Afghanistan, and they expressed concerns both about the capabilities of the Afghan military and the Taliban’s likely ability to take over major Afghan cities.
Other advisers, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan, raised the possibility of Taliban attacks on U.S. forces and diplomats as well as the Afghans who for two decades worked alongside them. (read more)
I’m not here to defend Joe Biden, not even close; I believe the man is inept, functionally and cognitively out of touch, and completely illegitimate. However, there’s more in the background context for these (and similar) articles.
The DC “conservative” media appear to be framing these articles to give the illusion of current conflict between the White House and the Pentagon, by conflating statements made long ago (before Biden made the withdrawal announcement in April), with recent positions. The actual statements of Mark Milley and Lloyd Austin to congress only a few weeks ago run directly counter to the claims in the articles. I would advise people not to take these articles by DC media at face value…. they too have an agenda.
Here are Milley and Austin speaking specifically to the situation in Afghanistan shortly before the crisis unfolded. {4 minutes, prompted}
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Secretary Austin and General Milley did not hold the position that collapse of the Afghanistan government was likely, and did not claim that troops would be needed, and did not claim that Bagram AFB should be kept open. Their position, as demonstrably evident, was exactly the opposite.
So why is the Wall Street Journal trying to defend the Pentagon from the mess they created, and also throw Biden under the bus?
Joe Biden, General Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Austin are all equally to blame.
The Wall Street Journal appears to be defending the military industrial complex, by separating Biden from Milley and Austin.
Perhaps the DC media are counting on readers not doing their own research and not knowing the full background.
Sketchy.
Xiden was/is/will be totally incapable of making any cogent decision regarding ANYTHING. You name it.
It’s is, IMHO, Obozo’s fault. He makes the decisions and Xiden puts his signature on anything put under his nose. Obozo’s decisions -going back to his first presidential term- have been consistently against America’s interests.
Remember when he was following PDJT on his first world tour. Why? Probably to treasonously convince world leaders that PDJT would not achieve his goals and assure our enemies that PDJT would not last too long.
Every single person who voted for this mess called Biden and his administration or helped facilitate the theft of the 2020 Presidential Election is to blame and should be considered a traitor, Democrats and Republicans.
Do you know what was done during the American Revolution 1775-1783 to traitors if not put to death?
All their assets were seized.
Austin and Milley f’ed this up…..Fire them….!!!!
They’re now pushing troops back into Afghanistan…..”The War That’ll Never End”….until every last dollar can be made.
Someone ask Milley how his “white rage” training is helping him and US in this military disaster.
You are exactly right This guy Milley stands before the cameras with the four stars on his shoulders and his chest full of ribbons. And he shovels absolute bvllsh*t to the American people. This guy isn’t Dwight Eisenhower, he isn’t Douglas MacArthur, he isn’t Norman Schwarzkopf and he sure as h3ll isn’t George W. Patton. He is a disgrace to the legacy of those men. I’m a veteran myself and I wouldn’t follow this guy to a garden club lecture. Yes, fire them all–especially Milley.
He is a complete disgrace and he is a wicked man.
Or did the Democrats tweak an option B plan, incase Trump beat the steal in 2020? What better way to impeach him than after a disastrous evacuation and if it failed they would reap the reawrds in 2022 and pass every piece of legislation they wanted.
Well, it wiped the audits out of the headlines. So there’s that.
They’ll never let Trump into office again. In their minds, the seat is there’s not the citizens.
But what did we learn when Trump was in office? Just like we’re learning with Biden in office?
That elected or installed, the locus of power is not in the office itself, but outside.
Trump can shift that locus back to the people. He has been.
Bingo
Why is anyone surprised? They owe their loyalty to Obama, not Biden…
The military since Obama purged all the warriors has been related to changing diapers at the southern border, launching weather balloons, selecting maternity flight suits, and conducting seminars on the evils of white supremacy.
Which all rolls up to Obama’s many treasons!!!
The article refers to Biden as Mr Biden.
I actually noted that.
There have been any number of actors playing Biden for a while now. Real Biden is not around. The actors all just do what they are told, just the same as what the Real Biden did, so all puppets, obviously.
I don’t know how someone reporting to Joint Chief’s Chairman General Mark Milley or Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin wouldn’t just spit on them. Most likely they already fired anyone with honor.
With the Biden team everything is a deflection in order to cover previous mistakes or potential disclosure of mistakes. The nation is in deep sht and the Dems are and have been, along with the Deep State and its enabling media, causing one great disaster after another in what appears to be an effort to weaken the U.S. in order for power brokers all over the world to fill the gap.
Hard to understand that the Dems don’t seem to know they are in the same boat into which they are shooting holes, but it might just be that the Chicoms and many other national and private power players have conned them into complete ignorance about what’s happening with the implied promise the Dems would be in charge after the smoke clears. I still remain hopeful that all this is going to implode spectacularly but I also remain concerned they are going to take us all with them. We’re beginning to fight the Left at the grass roots levels, but if financial doom results, conservatives will ultimately be left standing, and the aftermath would be many years or decades of rebuilding to where we were just over a year ago.
Interesting watching the presser from Austin and Milley doesn;t sound like they will stay to get everyone out.. They hedge when talking they will remove as many as possible within the time frame..I thought the military didn;t leave anyone behind? Sounds like they may leave lots behind?
General milley.
Why should the American taxpayer buy you nice toys if you just leave them all over the place when you’re done playing with them?
We paid for those!
Yes… and to complete the circle… In the laundry process the “transnational security elite” (multinational defense contractors) then fund the political campaigns of the politicians who transferred the taxes to them.
WikiLeaks—Julian Assange speaking in 2011: “The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war” #Afghanistan
yes
it’s also how Biden AND OTHERS exploited Ukraine!!!
and backing up a bit, for a military operation most people have totally ignored and forgotten, the Balkan wars under the Clinton regime.
before that…El Salvador
and so on and so forth.
Afghanistan conflict has made more millions than any other ..talking global figures here.
regitiger: Using failed states and states with serious internal conflicts to launder money seems to be the modus operandi, at least since the Clinton Administration.
Afghanistan. Ukraine, and the Clinton favorite, Haiti. I bet that Libya was also a money laundering (and arms laundering) operation.
What do you expect from a couple of low-IQ bureaucrats who think “white rage” is the greatest national security threat we face? They’re paid liars, and they’ve been revealed to be incompetent leaders on top of all that.
The WSJ is pretty reliably a Pentagon outlet just like DOJ, State and the IC go to the NYT, CNN and WaPost (I always forget which goes with which). No surprise that the Pentagon would go to WSJ.
They’re counting on the fact that the major media probably won’t show their Congressional testimony (Rep. Doug Lamborn is my Congressman), and that even if they did, your average American won’t be able to deciper the obtuse bureaucratic doublespeak they both engage in.
I don’t think there’s anything particularly noteworthy in this latest iteration of the blame game. Biden blamed the Afghans and Trump. The Pentagon blames Biden. The Afghans who helped us blame … pretty much all of America as they should. The State Dept. blames the Pentagon and the IC. And on and on.
If this plays to form, the incompetent will be promoted, nobody of note will be fired, and the Democrats will try to change the subject while claiming it’s old news and a conspiracy theory.
Been there, done that.
The people who should be hanged – and I don’t mean that metaphorically – will not be hanged.
They will use this an excuse to gently move Biden out of Office using the 25th, move Harris up.
Notice…Harris has been out of sight as of late to keep her and her mess ups out of the media.
This has been planned, they just needed the right opportunity.
Shes prob being groomed
Utah governor petitions to accept Afghan refugees.
Hope I live long enough to see the Church this governor belongs to exposed .
ALL BY DESIGN.
Kamal no where to be found or seen? Disconnected, not accountable.
Biden, ON VACATION??? Back and forth and can’t follow a SS agent…
WE LEFT tanks, planes, ammo, guns, a military base TO THE TALIBAN, FREE!!!! Walked away when ALL that equip could have been shipped out and back….$millions, $trillions GIVEN AWAY, BY DESIGN and ON PURPOSE.
Every DC agency is working independent and running their own agendas…JOE BIDEN can’t control his body, his mind and you think he’s MANAGING all cabinets and agencies???????
WE ARE IN FREEFALL…..NOBODY KNOWS what is going on in DC b/c any and everything is helter, skelter and so is Congress.
WHY THE H***** is Congress not sounding an alarm. THey know dang well the country is in chaos and yet, crickets, silence…
Afghanistan is a scam…a complete hel**-hole scam and way for we the taxpayer and America to FUND the Taliban….we left them with a country filled with military goods, ON PURPOSE AND BY DESIGN.
Biden didn’t make that decision…the man is barely surviving bodily functions. THE WORLD KNOWS, the world laughs, the world takes advantage.
That same military equip will soon be killing our American soldiers and people…mark my words….SOON…
AND, we leave 10k Americans but BRING 70k Afghans HOME??? TO a town and city near you….isn’t that just great. FULL Constitutional rights to boot and $$$$ mega welfare.
Planes landed in Raleigh, NC this wk…delivering our newest citizens…ain’t life great in the ole USA????
… “planes landed in Raleigh NC” Don’t doubt you one bit… but can you tell us how you know this? It’s of interest to all especially me as I live in the Triangle area..
I believe Camilla has gone to Vietnam.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-vietnam-afghanistan-comparisons-fall-of-saigon
Heels Up is the VP. Her only job is President of the Senate.
If I was the VP of the current resident of the White House, I would run as fast and as far away as possible from him.
#Obamagate.
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just as incompetent but also with less delivery
perilous times – where is Biden?
Who controls the football?
optimal first strike time for our enemies….
Biden appears AWOL, his backup looks to be back stabbing him…
Biden
Harris
Pelosi
none of those make a good leader or controller of the football….
Where is Pelosi in all of this? Has she maneuvered away (hearings next week to look into the handling of Afghanistan) to impeach both Biden and Harris over this and move into the presidency?
Speaker Pelosi. Well the – our Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee has announced today to our Caucus that there would, next week, early next week, be a hearing on this subject, with the highest level officials in the Biden Administration. That is Congress’ role, the role of oversight. And that will take place early next week, at least it will begin then.
DOES ANYONE believe the football is being carried around with Joe??? Really?? Anyone???
What is sketchy about throwing Biden under the bus? It’s exactly why he is there.
This isn’t new. Read up on the Roman Empire…especially the parts where its various enemies ripped at its frontiers until ultimately invading from within and taking ownership.
Above all – IMHO – it is the military that is the cancer.
It certainly looks like the military is the cancer.
“We don’t have the ability to go out [outside the airport] and collect large groups of people.”
– SecDef Lloyd Austin
From what I got sounds like they will leave people behind..They said they don;t have the capablity to go out and extract people..so if you can;t make it to the airport in time oh well I guess you are out of luck.
Thought the military didn;t leave anyone behind?
Austin is floundering.
He’s even freezing up like Biden”
Looks like Hillary’s doctor/handler has a new patient.
The simple question is why don’t they have the capability? What is the current military budget? What is the size of the armed forces? The answer is those at the top don’t have the will or inclination to uphold their oaths to the country.
Pathetic excuse for a man.
“But at least we’re woke!”
Maybe I missed it, but who has asked this guy why they waited 7 months to get Americans out of Afghanistan…?
Seven months to NOT get Americans out of Afghanistan.
Maybe this is the beginning of replacing Fake Biden with Fake Kamala?
Give fake president the Cuomo treatment?
Mark Milley wants to make himself the President? I don’t know but the demoralization of America keeps on accelerating.
Milley just stated that he did NOT foresee the collapse within eleven days.
I am sure he is lying, he is receiving multiple reports and briefs a day on Taliban troop movements, since its kind of a hot topic. If not then Fire Lt Gen. Laura Potter as a start.
Also, fire his fat ass.
The last reporter to ask him a question asked why they didn’t start getting people out weeks ago when Kandahar fell.
With Austin’s help, Milley was able to avoid answering her question.
Perhaps?????
Turner (Ohio) gets it, his questions are specific; about now, going forward, he’s asking for an update of plans and expectations. Austin assures his social conscience is aware of the women and girls. Zip answers to any war dependent question.
Wittman manages to bring out the worst of a military leader, demanding definitive answers and Austin again answers nothing she asked. Circling the air Austin redirects her focus and drills her with his social priorities astonishingly saying “that’s what our military is all about.” !
Garamendi struggles to speak in a Feinstein cadence, another elderly man in embarrassing decline deciding how to run wars.
At least he’s expecting a war with China. Good thing. I for one anticipate China, Russia and UN feet and weapons on US soil. US soil. China will initiate, blame us for responding.
There is no meaningful input of plan or expectation for the month of August, Sept, Sept. 11th, Afghanistan.
This is a travesty of a meeting if it was to gather expert opinions to make war plans to begin budgeting and allocating the money to carry out ‘something’ resembling a plan.
Question is whether Austin and Milley astutely, with hindsight, as career Generals understood our enemy and it’s fast movements? Two weeks later their answers in this meeting are useless.
They underestimated the Taliban and it’s 20 year goal, it’s clever strategy, it’s resolve and unity over their 100’s of years old religious and social laws. Austin and Milley and Biden carelessly imposed dangerous Progressive experimental social laws
God help the citizens of America to recognize our help will not come from these men. 20/20 vision is Afghanistan.
Please, thesunisup — no disrespect meant, but you are using the possessive “its” as the “it’s” aka “it is”contraction! Repeatedly doing this incorrectly undercuts your strong message!
Wouldn’t it be funny if Pelosi’s House did impeach Biden, and then all the Republican Senators voted to acquit?
It would give Pelosi an 0 -3 record on impeachments! What a loser that old bag is.
The loser sitting in the speakers chair?
This is a rhetorical question, right?
Is everyone going to be caught off guard when the bus actually runs over Biden? The charade is ending. Pelosi didn’t make it easier to remove a President with the 25th to get rid of Trump. It was about removing Biden. The cabal has been signaling their moves very clearly for a long time. All of this has been planned for a long time. The humiliation of America. The demoralization of it’s people.
The border is open for a reason. We’re taking in thousands of Afghan refugees for a reason. And all those reasons are men of fighting age. You might be thinking I’m a bit cynical and paranoid right now. I’m thinking you’re not paying close enough attention. Things are moving at a pace unlike ever before. We have another set of elections coming in a couple months. If you couldn’t, wouldn’t believe that the cabal could subvert a national election so flagrantly… You need to prepare yourself for what’s coming because coming it is.
General milley.
How many American hero’s being killed by America’s own abandoned weapons is too many?
What do you say to that mother that will lose their transgender child by enemies you have armed?
The reason Biden hasn’t fired anyone yet is because Jill hasn’t made the decision to do so. And she has to consult Soros who was caught flat footed on this. This whole debacle could bring down all of them including Soros with the election report from AZ coming out.
This could bring down the Dem party (with loud mouth Pelosi weighting in with her ignorant comments), a great deal of the DS and the upper echelon of the elite/China who have been running this op.
Keep an eye on how fast the CCP moves in to Kabul to take control.
AND another thought…Joey has “skin in the game” in Afghanistan ie Hunter dealings with the Chi-coms. He may have stayed the welcome angling for more money for his mafia family. You’ll know if the Chi-coms move in immediately. That happens..the freak show in the WH making money off the deaths of the Americans there.
God pray that it is the cataclysm to remove this evil rot and We The People get back our country
The military clearly agreed to the over night debacle
No one said NO
It was probably their idea!
Milley and Austin are True Believers. Mr Magoo is just mouthing the words.
If someone has to burn, they’ll let the puppet do that.
Since only very low information people might still be unaware of Joe’s cognitive status, I suspect this is simply the deep state protecting the deep state. Ya, even if Joe is a complete f-up, there are smart capable people in the background so this is just a case of sleepy old joe messin’ things up a bit. Could this be the start of a progression which obviously began even before the election to push us and push us till we revolt and then they can shoot us like rabid dogs or something. I know now that the hoped for Jan 6 insurrection was not even close to what they were hoping for and the resulting court cases are only providing fodder to the resistance. At the very least I suspect we are likely to see Joe being quite the fall guy for a continuing string of bad decisions. The great thing about it is he personally will never be aware of what is going on as his hippocampus continues its shrinkage and resulting loss of mental acuity.
A very important party of the Hannity Interruptus interview of Trump last night cued to the relevant part.
The leftist beta-male (actually, omega-male) twits “in charge” now don’t know that the ONLY way to play with primitives who only understand force is to threaten to reduce them to a red mist while also laying waste to everything they hold dear and make them believe that threat due to your prior actions (like the red misting of Soleimani):
Why would any sane person remove the troops before the civilians? This defies all logic and goes against every evacuation in my lifetime. There has to be more to this than we are being told.
If what Miley and Austin are saying is true, the only thing for them to do is to resign. If Biden will not listen to them then what service are they providing?
Since Michael Bloomberg (and his Bloomberg bucks) played a strong role in the effort to hand the democrat nomination to Joe Biden, I simply had to check for a quote from Mini Mike. He did not disappoint. Here is his op ed from the 15th.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-15/the-u-s-can-t-walk-away-from-afghanistan?srnd=premium
See what you think. It seems to me that the op ed is written in a manner that diffuses a great deal of the blame to the previous three presidents. He does not give Biden a proper butt-chewing. Mostly, it sounds like Bloomberg tries to make himself sound presidential, or maybe vice presidential.
Those lying SOB’s. They are trying to get a cover story working to cover up that the military complex pulled all the backbone support so this shit show would collapse.
Well they succeeded perfectly In their plan. They wanted the evacuation process to collapse. How long do you think it will take for the military to go full war footing? Just wait till the Taliban start cutting trapped Americans heads off for the televised audience to see.
The Generals planned it out to a tee. They are traitors. All they wanted to do was manufacture a way to go back in to Afghanistan for 20 more years. THEY Planned this Out.
Your points all on target. I personally will be surprised if the Taliban gives a reason for air=strikes – especially drones – to remain in use. Lopped off heads will demand blood in return – any blood. I think they will be satisfied to have “Americans” pack up and go so that they can resume the nightmare of Afghanistan unimpeded. There’s time to plan.
I really appreciate J.E.Dyer’s commentaries. Here is one to read and digest…
https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/08/18/afghanistan-it-cant-really-be-incompetence-and-other-observations/
Thank you for the link.
This is not incompetence, it was a military plan
Thank you for the link.
That was an excellent, thought provoking article.
This will definitely make me lose some sleep tonight…….
Besides adding that making Kamala Harris president wouldn’t change the policy trajectory of the current administration anyway (she wouldn’t be the decision-maker, any more than Biden is), I would add this: we may have reached what we might call the critical juncture. Preserving the structure of our current political reality isn’t necessarily the priority of whoever’s making decisions like a systematic sell-out of America in Afghanistan, which efficient logic would tell us is what we’re seeing.
I don’t see this as gross incompetence, but rather treason. The military has known for two years and had proven in Iraq that they knew how to plan a withdrawal.
I think the equipment was left behind for the Chinese to examine. I think the abandoned civilians and contractors was designed to humiliate the US and then create pressure to move hundreds of thousands of Afghans to the US.
I don’t know who is using Biden as a sock puppet, but his decision was treasonous. Milley and Austin have to be held accountable as well.
This was pre-positioning from any possible negative outcome, resulting from withdrawing from Afghanistan. Translation, if anything goes wrong – I will blame you three. Biden, General Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Austin.
This could not happen to three more deserving people. Now, notice the drug addict Harris is missing.
This was planning in advance by keeping Harris at a distance. They knew General Mark Milley was lying.
Remember, General Mark Milley helped the coup to take place.
An encore performance by General Mark Milley.
I think this was deliberate. Biden effectively handed CCP our military technology. Biden has most likely been told ‘it’s time for you to get sick and step down ‘. Kamala was always Obama’s fist choice.
There is a certain, odd legitimacy to this not-really-pushback from the uniformed military leadership, to the Executive Branch: What may finally be surfacing here is a much bigger issue: It’s way past time for adult talk about the Constitutionally mandated, civilian control of the US Military and how that is abused across the board.
Especially, the legions of non-uniformed ‘policy makers,’ sinecure law-school mavens, DOD contract-academics, political liaisons and ‘cultural advisors’ absorbing inconceivable amounts of –our- money in the nooks & crannies of the NDAA budgets, while mandating and crafting such lethal garbage as self-destructive combat ROEs, CRT training materials, sexual-everything policy, forced vax policy…et al. This hidden level of bureau-rat must be held personally accountable for the Exceptionally Grave Damage done to our military readiness at the corporate level, down to the tactical level, a.k.a. needless deaths, suicides and even recruiting problems…for decades. Let’s start with that oath.
No McMaster fan here, but his book Dereliction of Duty illustrates perfectly how this Constitutional authority became codified as a platform for Fraud, Waste and Abuse, in- and of the DoD. IMHO, this is the single biggest unlearned lesson from Vietnam. And it remains unexamined and unlearned because the self-serving political consensus therein is leveraged as a primary operational asset of The Swamp.
Doom On Them…with extreme prejudice
So … Congress will demand a hearing, with a special cmte and report that will blame Trump for a bad transition due to his obsession over the 2020 election with “false claims of fraud.”
This is how the spin will go, on fast speed, like a superwasher for dirty lies.
Then reengagement in the ME.
Biden bows out from the pressure.
Kamala installed.
See, it never matters whether people swallow the lie. They’ll “make it fact” and motor right along.
Our country isn’t a conversation or a comment thread.
It’s unelected elites with doing as they please.
But they always discount God. And they always discount the people. And therein lies the flaw in their plotting.
Yup, Kamala Obama . I would say God help us, but. God helps those who help themselves.
WSJ sez: “President Biden said he would not shrink from his share of responsibility.”
Right. After he blamed everybody else under the sun, he mumbled “The buck stops here.”
I read some of Pence’s speech at Don Suber’s site. Pence is just positioning himself. Enough said!
Positioned behind a teenage boy no doubt.
Joe out. Ineligible Kamala up to bat. Aren’t we lucky.
Dr. Jill will never allow it. There would be a cat fight in rose garden.
My current thinking;
‘throwing Biden under bus’ = setting the table for what was predicted last year before the election, the Democrats would use the 25th Amendment to remove Biden and install Harris.
‘the contrasting stories about statements from Milley and Austin‘ = this could be nothing more than ‘chaff and countermeasures’ to muddy up the story and keep everybody confused. (Standard Operating Procedure for Politicians and MSM)
Everyone new joe is incompetent. Wasn’t the logistics of the withdrawal up to sec def & joints?
PDJT established a plan and the military lied to him and sat on their hands waiting for The Big Steal.
So we were way behind the power curve when Biden pulled the plug on tens of thousands of Americans in country.
Those idoit people that are running things behind the scenes at the Whitehouse, got played by the Military complex. They set ole half brain Biden up and kicked him right thru the uprights. They scored extra points today with this contrived bull crap they are spewing..
The Military complex has gotten just what they wanted . Thousands of trapped Americans. How long will it be before 101st Airborne Division along with the 82nd Airborne Division, along with 75th Rangers, and the Marines are streaming into Afghanistan for round 2 of Taliban hunting for 20 years.
they are on their way now.
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[forwarded to me]
This entire ostensible fiasco was engineered this way. It was meant to look like a disaster of epic proportion. It is a psy-op, which was calculated to be swallowed eagerly by pro-Trump conservatives as well as anti-Trumpers, and to boost the “humanitarian crisis” that would be covered by the media.
What about how Biden and administration look? Irrelevant. Everyone knows that Biden is an idiot, and that he was wrong on every single foreign policy decision in his entire career, even before getting dementia. Moreover, everyone with two brain cells to rub together also knows that we have nincompoops in the Pentagon and State Department — more concerned with “gender” issues than doing their jobs, while payola corruption runs rampant. It’s the CIA, “the fourth branch of government” running this show.
What does this accomplish:
— Suddenly more and more troops are moving on “missions” into, not only Afghanistan, but all over the Middle East. War mongers and their profiting crony contractors and NGOs win big. Buck$$$$$$$. At least some of the troops will be there indefinitely.
— The Obama/Soros/Rice/etc. anti-America crowd gets to arm the jihadists by abandoning equipment and facilities. And later… when people are held hostage, the jihadists might even get deals for the release of more terrorists as well as cash.
— The anti-Trumpers get to screech either that it’s really obvious that we couldn’t end the 20-year excursion in Afghanistan, or in some other way this was “tRump’s” fault. In their ignorami mindset, they will gobble up and spit out every fact distortion, misstatement and outright lie circulating among the social media stupids. And this will hold no matter how many “right wing” leaning media try to say “but it’s not the getting out but ‘how’ it was done.” (Does this look like we’re “out”?)
— Every active military person who “might” need to be deployable within 24 hours now has been forced-choiced into either taking the clotshot or spending time in the slammer prior to being discharged. A little side benefit.
— If you listen carefully to statements about the “abandoned” Americans who need “rescuing” etc. you will hear that these statements rapidly transmogrify into taking hundreds of thousands of Afghani immigrants into the United States. Again, furthering the “fundamental transformation” program. There had to be a humanitarian crisis to justify this. A peaceful exit wouldn’t have done it.
— Meanwhile, media attention, and public attention is diverted from most everything else, such as: proof of the election fraud coming out now, the southern border being completely overrun and not even processing, the tightening insane and tyrannical covid screws, the alarmingly high and growing higher inflation rate, the insideous corrupt shenanigans that are continuing throughout the federal government as the looting and pillaging of America continues… etc.
Please do not jump on bandwagons, including those that feel-good — regardless of “which side” you like to hate on.
You are being played.
This has the ring of truth – sad, but truth nonetheless.
You’re saying that the Biden Administration is so brilliant that it wants to look dumb as part of some grandiose “psy op?” You give them far too much credit; they really are this dumb!
Biden is just a puppet. Look to the real power. And it’s not Obama. He’s just a puppet also. Now Valerie Jarrett on the other hand is another story. Although even she is being controlled by Iran.
It’s like a maze, but one that’s easier to navigate if you know where to start.
CYA>CFB
Cover Your Ass is their primary concern; covering for Hiden is a secondary concern.
But it’s more than just about that… crashing American interests is the overriding objective.
Milley is an arrogant, lying ass. Bagram was essential!!! He knew this.
The wholesale, overnight abandonment of Bagram was planned, but it was an utter disaster.
He needs to be put against wall and shot for treason.
He knew damn well what would happen.
Put Austin and Miley there first.
My understanding is that Bagram is too far away, and the one-two roads leading could not be secured, so not really an option.