The message from one of the leading democrats in the House to stranded Americans in Afghanistan is: “you’re on your own.” John Garamendi (CA) told CNN the U.S. military should not try to rescue stranded Americans outside the Kabul airport. This rings a familiar Benghazi bell…
This is a remarkable statement considering Garamendi is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, and one of the key people who supported, funded and authorized the current mess in Kabul. While his outlook is representative of the ideology of leftists, it is still quite alarming to see a leading U.S. political figure telling desperate Americans there will be no help coming.
Keep in mind the British forces are conducting search and rescue missions to extract their stranded citizens. Quite a contrast. Watch this statement from John Garamendi:
This sounds like a massive hostage situation now….
Eff xiden. Eff xiden. Eff every freaking one of those commie, sociopathic &$#@!’s in the dc community. Not elegant but I have covid brain and I’ve never been this outraged by our government.
I’m with ya, Pepper.
John Garamendi loathes America.
Why wouldn’t he loathe Americans too?
Another arrogant ducktard from the Left Coast.
Probably bought by China.
I fully support LGBTQ at this point…. Let’s Get Biden To Quit.
ADMIT THE LIE JOE
#AdmitTheLieJoe
#AdmitTheLie
Come on, man! That was 4 or 5 days ago.
Son of a beach!
where is Michelle Obama with her hashtag for all the girls
I saw a headline somewhere the other day that some leftists suggested making reparations payments to Afghanistan so this might be the setup for this. I’m sure President Pudding Pop will work to get his 10% of the money.
Who do these scumbags think they represent? Why should they be returned to Congress?
Amazing.
They want our soldiers demoralized.
As if injecting them all with pathogenic spike proteins isn’t bad enough??
Nope….not enough.
I guess the brass were too busy coming up with this vaccine atrocity for our soldiers (btw I took the vaccine) to plan for the orderly drawdowns, shutdowns and evacuations from Afgan. Just unbelievable.
Sorry, but all I could look at was this lizard blinking CONSTANTLY. What a ghoul. I’ve never seen ANYONE blink that much, and I’ve seen a lot of people from meth heads, to psychotics, psychopaths, people terrified of being exposed under questioning, etc. I’ve never seen another human being blink like this f*ckin’ guy. Something is WAY off with him.
Could be blepharospasm.
It’s Morse Code for “send me Money, please.”
I can’t stop thinking of the children being tortured by those dogs. It’s a Greek tragedy. The one about the women and children left after all the men were killed in war? Katherine Hepburn in play? Why haven’t we gotten better in 2 thousand + years?
Evil never disappears it has to be kept in check.
It’s Islam. Stuck in the 7th century. A medieval, barbaric, unenlightened primitive system.
A reformation of Islam a la Martin Luther with the Roman Catholic Church is an impossibility.
Theologically in their eyes, the Quran is inherently perfect as it is literally the word of their Allah. Never mind that murderous miscreant Mohammed that they glorify as the perfect Muslim.
While that is an accurate statement, the fanatics can be the most dangerous.
Imagine crossing fanatics like ISIS with some of those politically savvy types. Sounds like a plan for some to establish a new Ottoman empire to me.
Islam is too big to fail. We need to finally focus on the one “tenet” in their holeeee bhooook that even lefties across the world can see as a major and serious violation of basic human rights; the sanctified MURDER of apostates and blasphemers. Force “moderate/mainstream” US-based imams in open letters to say if they agree with the penalties for apostasy and blasphemy and if they “do”, then have them write back to Pope Francis’ new BFF Grand Mufti sheihk al-Tayyan of the al-Azhar Sunni theological institute in Cairo, the leading Sunni theologian, to put into writing that he agrees that that penalty should be abolished. If he doesn’t (and then calls American Imams who wrote the letter “heretics” in return), then the world can finally say F.O. to islam and ban it and sanction any country that practices that barbarity.
If ay-Tayyab demands that the penalty be abolished, then encourage ALL muslims to abandon their stupid religion. Even Muslim Brotherhood chief religious leader al-Qawadari, admitted that islam would have disappeared long ago if NOT for the death penalty against apostasy.
This is the best and most effective way of finally calling evil as evil. There is NO law that says that religion HAS TO BE lovey-dovey-peaceful-kumbaya. Just look at the Aztecs and the muslims.
#APOSTATESLIVESMATTER
#ISLAMTOOBIGTOFAIL
I do like the sound of that idea.
Unfortunately, Islam as an all encompassing religious, legal and political system is far too useful to some for the powers that be to ever allow that.
Remember, at the time of the first WTC bombing in 1993, almost all of my friends considered islam a crap religion and evil entity that was violent and deserved to be mocked and that islamic doctrine was the single main force behind all their terroristic acts through the decades directed towards the US and our European allies (no less 1400 years of cruel barbaric wars of conquest).
Then with 9/11, despite being the WORST attack on AMERICA since Pearl Harbor that forced everyone to watch their fellow citizens die in real time on TV in horrible deaths by fire and jumping, the elite PC betters of hour government, headed by Bush, made sure that we bent over backwards to appease these groups and lied about their basic beliefs. Everyone was afraid to call a spade a spade because we were like the Labour council and police in Rotherham and elsewhere in England who were afraid of being branded “RAAAAYCIST” and lose our standing in “society”. We were conditioned to be “concerned” about possible “backlashes” against muslims that NEVER materialized they should have and we were told we DESERVED the initial Lashes! Christians communities held innumerable “ecumenical ” celebrations. School kids were forced to recite the shahada on trips to mosques (usually at the behest of white liberal women teachers who seemed to be enthralled with the exotic fabric of the hijabs they donned on these excursions). Yet, muslims have NEVER accommodated any kafir beliefs or traditions. They don’t send their kids to synagogues or churches to recite prayers. They have a huge section of world history books and social studies texts that whitewash their history and only snippets of the history of Judeo-Christian history. Pork is abolished from public school and prison cafeterias after a single complaint whereas Jewish students who observe kosher simply eat something else on the menu (duh!). Hollywood producers try to create shows showing “normal muslim families” (and never normal Christian families) or make sure they are never the villain anymore but the self-sacrificing sage character.
Hopefully, this 9/11, we can finally can call evil what it is and not worry about being called racists. Let us encourage our friends and neighbors to FINALLY read their stupid holy book and critiques of it from Robert Spencer or Raymond Ibrahim or Daniel Pipes or the Apostate Prophet YouTube video series or that of David Wood. You can bet that 0% of liberals have read the koran, especially our “leaders”. Press them on the issue. Especially their views on the sanctified murdering of apostates and blasphemers. This is OUR struggle to lose; put in the effort!
“dealing” with Muslims in this way has ALWAYS PROVEN deadly.
imagine trying to convince a dog to walk upright.
except this fish has natural instincts to attack every thing when the discussion happens.
you cannot teach this dog new tricks…
it’s the breed of the dog…it’s generational…
Islam cannot unwind from it’s severe form because the entire tenets of this false religion observes that any departure from doctrine is irreconcilable.
spoiler: there is no such thing as moderate Islam..only people who haven’t “yet” taken to believing it all the way through.
RF can you recommend something better than a cantenna?
I know better then to say electronic forms of communication wireless or wired, are inherently secure. (They’re not)
Other then to rely on direct face to face communication or old fashioned trade craft. I do not know, if your intention is privacy.
as Koran as a template, leaves no option for “reformation”..the trajectory is only patched toward radicalism…extremism.
their “book” leaves no higher moral imperative that introduces the notion that man can have a love like God.
and because of this defect…a satanic death cult trajectory is guaranteed.
which was the reason this “religion” was initiated in the first.place.
with the bible, the path for any corruption was always going to lead back to Christ and the personal relationship to man.
with the Koran, just the opposite…where false prophets are celebrated, revered, and all manner of violence is recognized as holy.
bible – Christ has saved you through love…
Koran – you must earn redemption of your false prophet by killing anyone who does not believe as you do.
In spite of what the bleeding-heart, there-is-no-God liberals say, people are not naturally good.
I cannot upvote this enough.
Absent some external influence an individual is predisposed to do anything but good. I.e. human nature is naturally corrupt.
Let me guess, the purpose of the military is to look after the interests of the elites and not that of the people.
Because common people are not that important to the ones that are in power?
They deserve to have entire units disobeying their orders in order to save the people that service members are duty bound to serve.
Exactly, they got their capitol police force and the NG on call. And now the capitol police are branching out to be closer to the “white domestic terrorists” in other states. These jerks need to be forced to walk among the people they represent without their private security. The very people they ignore after they win their elections.
Who are all these hapless Americans stranded behind enemy lines? I would assume that many of them are related to the soldiers who were stationed there?
Afghanistan is not exactly on my top ten list of vacation destinations.
I imagine that these are the Contractors, intelligence, CIA, DIA, civilian technicians, clerks, State Department workers, NGO aid group workers, etc…. Doubt very much that spouses of military officers and their families live there like in friendly allied country bases are quartered there. Unfortunately, they are probably not all concentrated in Kabul but stuck in other provinces too?
Cartilage. That buffer antagonist and administration changes.
Some employees are veterans.
treasonist leaks are the only way to combat overt treason.
The only issue is where to post it? Is it t ready to be seen live.
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Yes, who are they. CIA operatives? Employees of contractors working for Blackrock et al. who didn’t leave when they were told we’re pulling out? Journalists embedded with Taliban who now are helping to put out their propaganda? American embassy workers and State Department employees in Kabul?
I’m trying to figure out here who the heck, other than military, are “Americans stranded behind enemy lines”. I do NOT think they are related to soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a war zone, not a civil affairs excursion.
I guarantee that many of these “Americans” are people who “fled” Afghanistan to the USA, got refugee status and went back to visit the fam and take snaps with the elders. Many of them are not American in any form, and only used lax refugee laws to get on the US gravy train. They would never have returned to the place they “fled” in terror if they really were “refugees.” They would have worked with NGOs and anyone who would help them get their remaining family out long ago if they were truly terrorized by the regime. Watch what they do, not what they say.
Drop Garamendi into the middle of the Afghan poppy fields & tell him to find his way to the airport. You can add Pelosi, Feinstein, Schiff, Waters, Lieu, Swallwell, Newsom; and their families to that plane’s manifest. California would then be a little better off, as would America.
Those from California are all mouthpieces for the CCP and have been enriched by them too
If 100 million Americans were to peacefully march on Washington and demand the resignation of all members of all 3 branches of government, would it work?
We need to start over because this ain’t working.
Well, they might need a little nudge. They’re embedded like ticks and they are draining the life out of our nation as we speak.
Doing nothing sure as hell isn’t going to work.
I agree. Congress has wasted trillions of OUR dollars for the sake of getting re-elected or as part of some pet-project dream they thought of would work just great when they were starry-eyed altruistic “big thinkers” as college sophomores. Also, you have MALIGNANT and TOXIC leaders (Pelosi, Chuckie Schumer, Schiff, Durbin, Feinstein, Warner) who have been there as long as Biden whose whole character is to “score points” against opposition toxic leaders; we know that NOTHING will ever be solved rationally with their egos in the way….so these selfish and incompetent dinosaurs have to be tossed out WITHOUT pensions. Get rid of the “conservative” senators who are from safely deep red states who NEVER say a word or make any reasonable law during the 6 years they luxuriate themselves in the “club” except speak out a month before their easy re-election (ie. Daines, Risch, Capito, Coryn, Portman, Barraso, and about 20 others you NEVER remember the names of). The main thing is to charge them all with Dereliction of Duty by financial malpractice due to them doing nothing about our debt and cancel all their pensions and perks. That might make the next flakey and greedy power-hungry candidate for this level of high office to think twice. Also, term limits. 1 term only of either Rep or Senate but not both.
insanity begets insanity! another bright one giving orders…not!
Garamendi is just a political wh0re. He’s been in govt ever I moved to CA in the early 70s. What a hack.
If people don’t see the cynical callousness of this attitude… Well, I don’t know what else to say.
They see it, they just don’t care. We’re a 3rd world country at this point. We just have a large savings account to burn through but we’ll be indistinguishable from Mexico in the not too distant future.
Isn’t it about time all of these politicians should not have personal bodyguards?
Like the Taliban. We are going to see them as allies before too long.
There are no words to describe just how much I hate Democrats and their media cheerleaders right now. This is unacceptable.
Garamendi should be airdropped into a desert near Kabul with instructions to contact the nearest Taliban help center.
Hopefully this will wake up the contractors and others to not go work in other countries since your
government won;t rescue you..They should ask why are the British able to do it with seemingly
no problem or conflict or loss of life..?
Did the Governement warn these citizen to leave the country earlier and they chose not too? That seem like an awful lot of people to be remaining there if we are talking 1000’s of Citizens.
The 2 Paras get things done! Utrinque Paratus!
Jenevive, it was 2 weeks ago now the state dept. told all Americans to leave Afghan immediately. I don’t know about you, but to me, that means today or at the latest tomorrow.
Many if not most of the contractors are not American citizens but are Alfgans. They live there. They were paid by the U.S. govt. for the work they did. I don’t know if that constitutes an honor agreement to give them refugee status in the U.S. I wish we could get a number of contractors who are U.S. citizens.
I’d bet on a lie detector test that this guy hates you more than he dislikes the Taliban.
Demonrats hate America. Simple as that. The more the USA is humiliated on the world stage, the happier imbeciles like Garamendi are.
If people understood your 1st 2 sentences, they can stop trying to overlay logic onto what is going on.
Exactly.
Yes, but it’s not just Democrats. . . . Look no further than the spineless Republicans who whine and complain and do NOTHING . . . even when they have the House, the Senate, and the presidency! They are just as evil as the Democrats are!
How much are guys getting for kick backs…. have our soldiers been there for 20 years now they can’t go in because it will cause a war!!!! What??? The logic
Is astounding!!!
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/08/19/taliban-blocks-access-kabul-airport/
The Left has always hated America and Americans, but they’ve always stop short of advocating for the death of American citizens. Until now.
Out. Now. The Politician and the Americans. Retake Kabul if necessary.
Then start the multiple impeachment trials that are going to be required. SecDef can keep his pension and stay out of prison if he resigns.
The Uniparty is too compromised and cowardly.
Grab some popcorn. This is going to get real interesting when the Takiban starts talking about what really happened on 9-11 … and in Benghazi .. and how the heroin is getting to the US that contributed to 90,000 drug overdoses last year … or telli gbus about the horrific things that the “Afghan refugees” did to their countrymen to make them need to leave the country.
The Talinan’s retribution could be a whole lot more satisfying than simply lopping off some heads.
This so-called Congress critter is a coward of the first order. The kind who hide behind women and cry for anyone to come save him if left on his own out there with little hope.
I hope when he got home his wife slapped him and left. That’s if any woman would have him to begin.
This guy is proof elections are stolen since no sane person would vote for him.
He was probably rolling around on the floor screaming next to Liz Cheney on January 6th.
I would like someone to please explain how it is that we can welcome 500,000 Afghan refugees but we can’t extract 40,000 American personel?
You can’t explain crazy or evil. It just is and that’s where we are.
The previous Democrat administration (V.P. Biden) did not even attempt to save Amb. Christopher Stevens…the Americans left in Kabul are far below the level of an Ambassador. ?
I bet the Americans over there all voted Democrat. Karma.
Vote stupid, get stupid!
Why do most democrat men look like John Kerry and the women look like general Milley?
Notice tho’ the British are doing it.
Can you hear them now?
Our government has become an embarrassment to the people. We must ensure that miscreants like most of the Democrats should never be elected again, as conservatives work to restore this great nation.
I sometimes pipe up with sarcastic humor, but I mean this seriously…
Suppose Trump was still Commander in Chief.
Also suppose there was only ONE American stranded over there..
Say, maybe a bowe bergdahl.
This scum would be rioting and screeching loudly on tv for Trump to send in the 101 airborne.
This creep has been infesting Commiefornia politics for 50 years. A complete A-Hole and a miserable excuse for a human being. As far as I know he has never had a job in the private sector, ever! A total parasite.
On a related note why are there so many Americans left in The Graveyard of Empires when it has been obvious for a year now that our military was getting out? Who in their right mind would subject themselves to that kind of risk?
Garamendi belongs to one of the wealthiest and oldest families in California. Farmers and real estate. That’s why they live illegal immigrants so much. He’s rotated between elected and appointed government jobs since he graduated from college. Harvard of course Many of his constituents are his family business empire ‘s employees Like English tenant farmers used to vote for the local squire, their landlord for member of parliament
Garamendis aren’t quite as rich and powerful as the Gallos but almost.
A question and a statement as many of us on this thead and countless other threads try to figure out the answer to “why?” ” what is going on?” etc:
Does it matter?
A normal person cannot fathom the thought process of an evil person. Perhaps it’s enough to know that evil knows no bounds and that the lust for total control over others results in infinite possibilities to exert that control. History shows there are no bounds to what can unfold when those grabbing power will do. So maybe it doesn’t matter to figure out “why?” Maybe it’s enough to see and know what is unfolding without needing to understand it. Perhaps it’s enough to know there is evil in the world and when you are in the cross hairs, all bets are off.
He would feel differently if it was him or a family member of his. I fear the taliban will parade out a bunch of hostages on 9/11 and kill them. I think our special ops teams would love to go get our citizens, but Biden won’t give the order…. He is a traitor to the country and needs to be removed now!! Praying for everyone In harms way….
https://therightscoop.com/politico-evacuation-flights-out-of-bidens-afghanistan-might-not-be-free-and-they-might-be-pretty-damn-expensive/
Just like the abandonment of Americans by Nixon and that pig Kissinger. Its deja vu all over again
When did Nixon and Kissinger abandon Americans. Do you mean American prisoners of war in Vietnam?
Here’s my take.
The Taliban can best take revenge not by taking it out on American citizens stuck in Afghanistan.
The Taliban can best take revenge by telling the world what really happened on 9/11, which I am sure that they know.
The relatively light hand that they have used so far makes me hopeful that this is the case.
Revenge will be sweet, indeed, if so.
Beware. They’re playing a PR war right now. I don’t think any of us should give them an ounce of legitimacy re: calling out facebook, etc.
People who have been there say that it is apatriotic bunch who have learned alot in the 20 years since we kicked them out of power. Their has been plenty of panic, but not much in the way of atrocities.
They will get much more mileage out of exposing what happened on 9-11, Benghazi, under our watch in Afghanistan … it is a pretty long list of some pretty horrible things.
American patriots and the Taliban have a common enemy in Barack Obama and the Uniparty.
Afghanistan: Pentagon rebuffs question on why UK are doing more to rescue citizens than US
https://www-independent-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/afghanistan-citizens-uk-us-pentagon-b1905414.html?amp_js_v=a6&_gsa=1&&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#aoh=16294172449086&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fus-politics%2Fafghanistan-citizens-uk-us-pentagon-b1905414.html
How better to transfer pallets of cash to the Taliban than to hand them thousands of hostages? Not only does it distract from the sale of weapons to Pakistan (with which the Taliban were armed) but it make the US look pathetic, as though 75k savages with small arms can push a “superpower” out of a country without significant effort. Who benefits from this debacle?
Gotta follow the money — China can move in and mine lithium for all the new mandated electric cars and batteries. China won’t have much of a problem keeping tribes away from mines, they will simply flatten them. Rules of engagement are to the advantage of China, not the Taliban.
Got some links? Would like to read about this and spread it around.
Thanks, not sure that’s really strong evidence for what you said originally.
Sorry if already posted. No words. . .
“State Department demands American citizens pay $2000 each for their flight out of Afghanistan…”
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/state-department-demands-american-citizens-pay-for-their-own-flight-out-of-afghanistan/
Source link. . .
https://www.osac.gov/Content/Report/2a11e105-3c74-4c72-85bb-1c50ea642d42
From ‘source link’. . .
“U.S. lawful permanent residents may submit a repatriation assistance request, and their request will be considered depending on availability. Flight Costs: Repatriation flights are not free, and passengers will be required to sign a promissory loan agreement and may not be eligible to renew their U.S. passports until the loan is repaid. The cost may be $2,000USD or more per person. Travel Documents: All passengers should have valid travel documents required for entry into the United States (e.g. U.S. passports or visas)”
Take care of his children and grand children….
Take this Garamendi creep to Kabul, and shove him outside the wire.
We’ll see real quick what a tough guy he is. He isn’t worthy to clean the boots of the average Deplorable GI Joe.
The only loss of life I can totally support is his. What kind of person votes for a maggot like this?!!!!!!
The clinical trial design is on clinicaltrials.gov…
Look at the efficacy endpoint and share with all…
Can’t express it more…
The UK Paratroopers are moving through the streets and pulling UK citizens and some Afghani’s from their hiding places.
But the US shouldn’t do the same thing.
He’s supporting Biden’s sale of Afghanistan to China. Taking his turn at influencing the lie that we can’t do anymore. How could he NOT know no one can get to the airport “We’re in control of”? I know.
Manipulator of words paying his dues to Democrats to create a perception. He knows Biden has no authority or power to get anyone to the airport much less on a plane.
Biden was emasculated along with the Democrat’s social agenda and Mr. Garamendi. Pretenders. Xi is ready to buy Afghanistan’s $1 Trillion of rare earth minerals to make the chips that “run the whole world and every military in it”. IF China will sell you their chips programmed anyway they want to control your planes and tanks, ships, jets, cars and cargo trucks. Have a nice day.
Where is Lindsey Graham? He loves this chaotic stuff. No advice from Lindsey?
Patience. He is trying to reach John McCain in a seance to get his advice first.
Talking to Sean Hannity about Haiti
The US Military, as opposed to the British Military, didn’t, and doesn’t, seem to want to provide safe passage anyway. They seem to have no interest in it.
This guy is a clown.
Kabul Klowns.
Akin to Baghdad Bob but more lethal to Americans.
Not really, I don’t hear anybody laughing. This guy is a first class traitor and should at the very least be way back in jail.
Preferably in Afghanistan.
He’s clarified a RAT fact.
It’s all about “kickbacks”.
RATS want a MASSIVE American hostage situation … for a MASSIVE ransom.
Then the RATS collect their massive payoff.
All part of The Plan.
“kickbacks” = cheese
Ending the war and leaving permanently “moves their cheese” bigly.
$$$tate department wanted $2000 of cheese from each American needing repatriation.
Here’s Rod Rosenstein waxing poetic about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, bribes, and “Who Moved My Cheese” in 2018.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/deputy-attorney-general-rod-j-rosenstein-delivers-remarks-american-conference-institutes
Repatriation…
The tell is the fact that ransoms will be demanded. Then, despite not negotiating with terrorists, we will give them cash.
The key though- who will have a book deal 6 -12 months from now? Who will open a new charity? Who will head up some government program to address the refugees of this crisis?
Those will be the people getting the kickbacks.
Vain. At his age, dyes his hair.
He is just one of them in WA. This whole administration is full of clowns starting at the top.
Some generals like Milley and Austin need to retire or get fired posthaste. Don’t let them hang around a few months and then slither away under the cover of darkness to enjoy their cushy retirements. A real general, like Macarthur or Patton, would have busted these princes down a few ranks, kicked their @sses up & down the tarmac and out of the service by now.
And while doing that MacArthur and Patton would have already rescued the remaining Americans. Remember when Truman fired MacArthur, he didn’t fire him because made bad judgements or incompetence, Truman fired MacArthur because he didn’t like him.
Top down, they need to be escorted out, and new leadership needs to be brought in immediately, imo. Who has the power to do that legally?
What’s the process, the 25th? Kamala? Let’s go we need your unique insight at the front. Oh, you don’t want it?
Nancy your up. Really?
Come on Hillary, you old battle ax, lead. Changed your mind? Nothing in it for you?
Next? Any volunteers?
Not a single soldier sent in under the current leadership, imo. These people are worse than incompetent, imo.
I smell a trap for our forces.
It’s intentional. A MONUMENTAL DISTRACTION.
They can’t have the American populace reading about election fraud forensic results and seeing two to three hundred thousand people a month streaming in from who knows where along our southern border.
I actually think the boots on the ground want to help Americans… it’s the brass and Commander in Chief that would rather hang rainbow flags
Same as Benghazi.
That is a correct assessment Lisa.
it boils down to leadership.
boots on the ground are human beings…
if leadership explains the situation, provides clear rules of engagement, provides force protection, empowers the troops down to the platoon and squad level to get after it, and FIXES a certain realistic goal to be achieved, thrn5 soldiers get very motivated.
this has been my experience…as both a greenhorn tender e2 all the way to CPO and then 03.
it’s ALWAYS about leadership…if it is there, troops do not hesitate.
I’m not seeing it here…
the first data point that showed a leadership failure was watching troops lose the ability to maintain positive control of the airport…that chaotic scene showed me that leadership did not have a plan of contingencies…
I do not blame the troops…
this was a command and control planning failure.
what happens on the scene in the moment IS the direct responsibility of the commanding officer and his cadre.
I was not impressed…this was too easy to predict months ago…months!!!
the 82nd and 101st should have been deployed to Kabul the moment demobilization phase 1 was ordered…that takes us back to May!!!
this was a series of failures…one after another.
at this point in time, troops have three missions imperatives..
all requiring the utmost motivation and integrity!
1. maintain positive physical security of every single corridor into Kabul airport and controll of people!
2. immediate evacuation and processing of those thousands of people.to be flown out.
3. force protection and rules of engagement powers to protect those involved in 1 and 2 above.
these three things MUST have a realistic goal and timeline…flexible, but fixed…October 15 is probably realistic.
once that is accomplished then armed forces demobilization must begin…this will require aur support and special ops team guys…
God Bless America
The troops do want to help. However, they will spend time in Leavenworth if they go off the reservation without direct orders to rescue citizens.
FUBAR’ed to the 9th power.
Please don’t lump the troops in with the military leadership. They have no control over policy.
Not meant as a criticism, but it is important to distinguish the difference. I am pretty sure the regulars are unhappy with these orders.
State was trafficking the seats out, according to the NY Post.
$2000/American
https://nypost.com/2021/08/19/state-dept-scraps-plan-to-bill-kabul-evacuees-2k-for-flights/
Do you mean like the Mexican cartels do for bringing illegals into the United States?
It’s the ORDER from the Swamp creatures in DC. They made a “deal” with the devil Taliban that they WOULD remain enclosed within the Kabu lAirport. I’ve read reports where UK & Aussie basically said FU to the U.S. commanders there and went out for their people and others..
I wonder if this is true? I don’t know how they can do this without conflicts?