Yesterday during a press briefing, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley was adamant from his podium when he proclaimed: “There was nothing that I or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days.” WATCH (25 secs):
Unfortunately for General Milley, today reports are surfacing that 23 State Department staff at the Kabul embassy informed Secretary of State Anthony Blinken of exactly that…. Kabul will fall quickly to the Taliban:
[Via Wall Street Journal] … “The cable, sent via the State Department’s confidential dissent channel, warned of rapid territorial gains by the Taliban and the subsequent collapse of Afghan security forces, and offered recommendations on ways to mitigate the crisis and speed up an evacuation, the two people said.
[…] In all, 23 U.S. Embassy staffers, all Americans, signed the July 13 cable, the two people said. The U.S. official said there was a rush to deliver it, given circumstances on the ground in Kabul. The cable was sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Director of Policy Planning Salman Ahmed.
Mr. Blinken received the cable and reviewed it shortly after receipt, according to the person familiar with the exchange, who added that contingency planning was already under way when it was received, and that Mr. Blinken welcomed their feedback.” (link – paywall)
General Mark Milley will likely be the first, perhaps only, person to get removed. He is positioned as the scapegoat, and that statement he read was almost certainly given to him to read by people with full knowledge of the State Dept. warning.
The crisis is not accidental. They knew this was coming. This crisis is intentional to create cover.
These people have really eclipsed the old “Peter principle”
“that statement he read was almost certainly given to him to read by people with full knowledge of the State Dept. warning”
Wow – now THERE’S your Machiavellian, huh?
… and they only waited 1 day to execute (contradict)
See ya, Milley
You been played
he was promoted for being a ‘reader’
Yeah he’ll take his millions and go home! When maximizing personal wealth is the measure of the man in this corrupt banana republic there is no shame for failing to defend the country from enemies foreign or domestic! He’ll be in demand as an obama sycophant talking head General! What a disgrace!
2nd Lt Milley is getting paid to lead and to know. He does neither.
Eclipsed and then some!
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/tocque49.htm
We were informed of such since the 1830’s…
Exactly what I was saying yesterday about Gen Lloyd Austin.
yes, I remember reading that book!
Grant to Pershing 53 years,
Pershing to Patton 46, Patton to Milley, 78.
Time to close West Point, past sell by date.
They teach how to politely ask to “please pass the sweet and sour shrimp” at cocktail parties with Raytheon executives
It chucked its curriculum on military warfare and replaced it with social justice warfare.
Lot of history at West Point, oldest Army post in the US. I hear they do gay weddings at West Point now.
I’d love to hear some of their famous alumni weigh in on that.
Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton, Stonewall Jackson, Grant, McArthur, Pershing, Custer, Lee, McLellan, etc etc .
Even Edgar Allan Poe
… and Jack Reacher!
Roger that!
Milley did not attend West Point. He graduated from Princeton.
Ever notice we lurch from “crisis to crisis “. All of them caused by the STUPIDS that are pawned off as “experts” who invented the crisis in the first place. Control people by keeping them in perpetual fear.
How any journalist refers to ANY government spokesmouth as an “expert” is journalistic malfeasance
Well, they really are not journalists, so there is that.
Pedo is surrounded by yes men not team of rivals.
We lurch from crisis to crisis because leadership is incompetent. No-one wants to look this stupid.
As written on this website many time: it’s a feature of the system, not a flaw!
Blinken blew off the warning from the embassy staff. Just like his good friend HRC did when the Benghazi people warned of trouble and asked for more security.
Same playbook.
She blew them off on purpose.
Benghazi was cover for giving weapons to Islamic forces to create ISIS. This latest is to arm the Taliban. It isn’t a flaw, its a feature of the Obama class leftists who call those Americans who oppose them the enemy, whilst enabling terrorist states to grow.
I would like to see the leftist political leadership “fundamentally transformed” by first removing all who subscribe to this “America Last” concept OUT of their positions!
That’s what happens when you have absolutely ZERO experience in real life conflicts situations and consider yourself to be smarter than everyone else who is trying desperately to warn you about what is just about to hit the fan…
But as long as all of these Elite idiots are allowed to get away with it, they will continue to behave exactly the same way!
Looks like JoBama was trying to get Putin to help him. I’m thinking that’s Russian collusion.
Is Joe a Russian asset? “What did he know, and when did he forget it”? Lol
I guess stolen elections have consequences.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/vladimirputin-troops-withdrawal-forces/2021/08/19/id/1033088/
They are marching to the beat of a different drummer.
This is not intellectual incompetence; these people signed up to do a job.
Think it through and connect the dots. They’re not that far apart.
Who in our government wants to enable the Taliban and Isis, strengthen Iran, destroy Israel, take America out and reduce her to “just another nation?” And who (the answers are multiple) is that person the mouthpiece for?
It’s intentional. It’s their core Diplomatic belief that America should bow deeply and apologize to Radical Islam. They believe if America would only treat our enemies as friends … then they would become our friends. And no, they didn’t learn anything from Benghazi.
They learned this strategy to get America off its high horse back in the sophomore year at Georgetown … you know those vaunted institutions of higher HATE of America
Was the Taliban given a list of people to silence of those who know where a lot of the money was wasted in Afghanistan?
Is that why so many Americans are trapped there?
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What Americans are trapped there? I’m trying to find out.
Any American trapped behind the human blockade of limited checkpoints the Taliban has established around the airport is trapped there. They can’t get scheduled flights because they can’t get to the airport, and if they do they mught find their seats have been cancelled to evacuate Afghanistanis.
I know some of their names and pray for them.
Christian workers are most at risk along with business people, naturalized American citizens visiting family and trying to get them out since the takeover. Those plus (one might assume) noncombatant American contractors providing services to the bases. I know electricians and plumbers who served in that role, made good money, and got out.
That’s “what Americans.”
Women under forty and as young as twelve risk being taken away from their families and made sex slaves. Little boys, age nine or so, might be ripped from their parents and brutally used as sex toys by the Taliban.
This is real.
This is a crime against humanity driven by the most satanic, inhuman ideological regime on the planet.
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Where are the names? Where are the media interviews with family?
Ex-CIA Ray McGovern: What Have Our Generals Been Up To?https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2021/08/17/what-have-our-generals-been-up-to/
Generally, it was hard to put it better than Ron Paul already has:
The military industrial complex spent 20 years on the gravy train with the Afghanistan war. They built missiles, they built tanks, they built aircraft and helicopters. They hired armies of lobbyists and think tank writers to continue the lie that was making them rich. They wrapped their graft up in the American flag, but they are the opposite of patriots.
They can’t succeed without the pols we have on the Hill.
the nation could sure use the Congressman back…there hasn’t been anyone to pick up his valuable ‘portfolio’ since he retired from the House!
Ray McGovern is a genius. I don’t agree with his politics (he thinks laws should be passed to regulate the weather), but he knows his business. Also, Regis Tremblay’s “Global Conversations” series is a fascinating insight into people who identify as liberals actually making statements that are very, very close to MAGA positions. I subscribe to Regis’s YouTube channel and always learn something from his interviews.
If Special Operations Forces (SOF) are meat eaters, then this GEN Milley is an chocolate donut hole eater…
he’s what tucker carlson called him, a pig and stupid.
The history of military and political leaders ignoring intelligence information continues to repeat itself.
In early 1941, a group of Soviet spies in Western Europe, known as the “Rote Kapelle” (“Red Orchestra,”) sent radio messages to Moscow warning of the impending German invasion. One such message from the Rote Drei in Switzerland reported: “Germany now has 150 divisions in the East.”
An earlier 1940 radio message sent from the Berlin group, “Der Deutsche Widerstand,” by Arvid Harnack, codenamed “Korsikanets” was: “Germany would go to war against the Soviet Union the following year.
A preliminary step for the military action against the USSR will be the occupation of Romania, which is currently under preparation and will take place over the next few months.”
But, when Stalin received this information, he called in his intelligence chief Lavrenty Beria, and asked him his opinion. Beria told Stalin what he wanted to hear: “I will drag this Korsikanets to Moscow, and jail him for disinformation.”
Stalin, failed to believe the intelligence he received that the Germans were planning an invasion, and in June 1941, the Red Army was completely surprised and unprepared for Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa.
Stalin had purged the General Officer class prior to the German Invasion. Obama purged the US military in his first 2 terms. This is Obamas 4TH TERM.
BIDEN IS HIS PUPPET
Stalin was doing population replacement in Ukraine too.
The dems probably learned from him. They respect that kind of dictator.
Walter Duranty was writing wonderful stories about him in the NY Times.
I see a repeat of Dien Bien Phu, only for the US potentially unfolding. There is only one landing strip at the Kabul airport, crater the runway and nothing gets in or out. Kabul airport is surrounded by high ground in which to motor and shell the airport. Our soldiers and civilians could easily get trapped with no way in or out. I’m sure the Taliban Generals who spent time in GITMO are salivating at the opportunity for revenge.
It is surprising that the Taliban has not already cratered the runways with mortar fire. Maybe they still might, but they have had three days to do it so far.
Looks as if General Milley wasn’t given the intelligence reports. Just like the CIA kept key information from President Trump.
Could General Milley be the scapegoat because Milley was the lead author of the pentagon’s two volume Iraq war report? That report identifies and shames multiple generals for their roles in the loss of the Iraq war.
When I read the Iraq report, I thought — “Wow, this General Milley must have many enemies now among the officer ranks.” No one wants to be criticized like that.
So . . . I think . . . yes, General Milley is a scapegoat. His support of Critical Race Theory and other leftist ideas didn’t save him.
Just like Clintonite Governor Cuomo (whom Pompeo identified as being one of the few governors who was NOT cooperating with China) has been forced out by the new Obama team.
The knives are out in the Democrat party . . . the purge is happening.
Biden next?
The replacements will be WORSE.
Don’t worry. It may take a bit of time, but Cuomo will get his revenge.
Trump should have fired Milley for being a political hack as well as insubordinate.
The whole thing was scripted to begin with.
Who is in the White House, and on whose behalf, to “advise” Biden?
Is it not possible that those in charge of Biden would be willing to shed American blood in order to (a) bring the public to a point of outrage with Joe that would make Kamala (now silent, waiting in the wings) seem like a better choice? And at the same time, (b) set up camp in Afghanistan for the Taliban, and arm them with U.S. military ordnance left behind by American forces, to repolace their machine-gun armed Toyota pickups?
Meantime, back home, Western America’s forests are on fire, blazes set by arsonists of that same ideological bent, recently arrived through open borders, charity from Americans, student visas, and however else they choose to get here.
And all of this takes the spotlight off the need to get our election machinery fixed before just a few more moinths pass.
We’re in rough shape.
Pray.
“The crisis is not accidental. They knew this was coming. This crisis is intentional to create cover.”
Or those at the Pentagon were so vain they actually believed in the Afghan Army. They did train, equip and pay them after all, so they were like the son they raised to be like them. They also were so vain they believed they, not the Taliban, had won the hearts-and-minds of the Afghan populous with all the money they had thrown around, even though they are invading dirty Infidel dogs and pigs and the Taliban are their coreligionists, and the truism that “You can rent an Afghan, but you can’t buy him as his heart belongs to Allah”.
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Rent. Astute. I suspect that members of the military ordered to conduct these “trainings” knew it was pretext. The “equip” and “pay” parts were real, though. So, if one is a soldier of sorts against the Taliban anyway, why not sign up. I have yet to talk with anyone formerly deployed in Afghanistan who wouldn’t agree that he didn’t know why the hell we were there.
“I have yet to talk with anyone formerly deployed in Afghanistan who wouldn’t agree that he didn’t know why the hell we were there”
Reminds me of an email I got years ago.
“When you are in uniform in country and ask fellow soldiers what they think, other than the 18/20 year olds in their first year of service, they tell you straight this is a Charley Foxtrot. The same guys however, have a different reply to those “not in the club.”
Two bits of news.
1.) I no longer wear silver oak leafs. The Podpeople would explode, LOL LOL
2.) I had some leave and was able to do what most can not do, I went to Europe in order to see my family for a few days.”
It seemed to that since hearing of the case of Charles Martland beating up the “police officer” who was raping boys that the war in Afghanistan was essentially lost if we weren’t standing up to the evil being allowed to prevail
the boy’s mother had gone for help to the American soldiers, I think she got beaten too – then Charles Martland got in trouble for laying a hand on the bastard who had raped the boy and beaten the mother for objecting –
how are we going to “win hearts and minds” when we allow injustice to prevail in our midst?
That child and his mother would know that they could not go to the Americans for help –
Charles Martland was put through hell, too.
Why couldn’t the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq at least be conducted as well as MacArthur in Japan?
There was respect for their traditions but the notion of the people of Japan regarding their Emperor as a “God” and prostrating themselves was outlawed . . .
couldn’t the rape of little boys . . . and little girls . . . for starters, have been strictly outlawed?
It was total bullshit to punish our soldiers for standing up to an evil and allowing the evil to continue . . . how are you going to help them build a solid, free, successful nation?
Because that was NOT done, perhaps that does underscore the possibility that this was all a boondoggle for the MIC and they did not give one shit about the people there.
Cover for WHAT though??? WHAT is the Ultimate Goal here?
Geo-Politics: shifting weapons, money, resources, and power back to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Domestic Politics: undermining and isolating Current Occupant in preparation for eventual removal.
To demoralize, question our military strength and aptitude, doubt our exceptionalism, alienate us from former allies, make us feel like we wasted lives and money and so on.
The list is a long one. Anything that diminishes us, they’ll take.
YOU, Comrade are the ultimate target. Ask not for whom the bell tolls.
good question. the answer is biblical. chaos for the sake of…..
I think we’ve been sold out to China. Trillions of dollars of lithium for the green new deal is in Afghanistan waiting for China to dig for it and sell us electric cars we can no longer afford. The virus is supposed to kill off all the older folks who still have patriotic bones and go to church so that the left over population will be easier to enslave or kill off.
Build Back Better…they are taking laughing lessons from Kamala at our expense.
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Why? What would this accomplish? Kamala?
It’s not the idea of who will be best for the nation; at this point the powers that want to use Joe to degeade and bring down the nation have gotten maximum mileage out of him. It’s nearing the time (awaiting the right opportunity) to discerd him.
Kamala – now sequestered – will be seen by the masses as the more palatable choice and she will continue to degrade and destroy the nation at the direction of those who now pull Joe’s strings. She’ll do it differently but will do as she’s told.
the GOPe already publicly surrendered when they voted to certify a fraudulent election….LOL NOW you expect them to do the honorable thing
It’s too late to pretend to do anything now anyway. We have their number and it’s going to be punched – just not the way they think.
Will the real Joe Biden please resign immediately.
https://trendingpolitics.com/new-evidence-of-something-really-wrong-with-bidens-camp-david-photos-not-just-the-clocks-knab/
The crisis is intentional to create cover for what? Just curious,
This is about re-empowering the Muslim Brotherhood, a major pillar of Obama’s foreign policy.
That, and put China in control of the mineral wealth in Afghanistan, while exploiting America’s demonstrated weakness there on the world stage .
Back to war…..
after an American massacre…..?
You could replace all 23 of those State Department employees with a management intern from Costco, and you would get better performance from the intern.
If it weren’t for American Citizens being abandoned behind enemy lines, and thousands of Afghan’s being killed and abused, this would be entertaining because:
I’d buy popcorn, but that’s unseemly.
It’s only unseemly if you run out of beer to go with it.
According to what I have heard here on the CTH is that the CIA and State Department work closely together. But, it seems true that the CIA and DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) are rivals.
Kubuki political theater. Look behind the masks.
What kind of popcorn ?
Pop Secret is considered one of the best – or used to be, anyway – to avoid a bout of diverticulitis
what brand of beer?
In Pravda, on February 23, 1980 there was no mention of a hockey game. On February 25, 1980 there was no recap of the Olympic Games.
That’s how commies roll.
Ollie North reported that the Taliban have lists of everyone who worked for USA, their names, addresses, phone numbers, all because all that was not wiped clean from our fallen embassy.
Someone else just mentioned the myriads of Blackhawks in enemy hands.
Yes, looking more and more like Biden et al did this on purpose so that the US arsenal in the hands of the enemy will be used in some other sinister way and Obama et al will blame it on the fall of Afghanistan.
Think Jill Biden is finally aware of the set up? Think she now understands that in selling her soul to be in the WH, she got this in return?
Logan and Tucker need to have at least 45 minutes on his regular show to discuss all this. They need to connect the strategy to Benghazi.
Jill B sold her soul a long time ago.
She s0ld her soul way back when she committed adultery with the pervert.
Jill, you have no taste . . . a brown Corvette . . . really?
I imagine that Jill is more worried about her broken foot right now that anything else . . .
IMO It’s no coincidence if the taliban have all that information, or a database.
I recall when DHS scrubbed the names of muslim terrorists a few years ago.
https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/268282-dhs-ordered-me-to-scrub-records-of-muslims-with-terror
Bengazi established ISIS.
The current pullout establishes Taliban as a terrorist caliphate state.
Iran was established as a terrorist state by cash and other giveaway in the nuclear “deal” uinder Obama, and re-empowered by the “Biden” White House.
Is a picture forming?
Besides the ‘STOLEN’ election being exposed by Forensic Audit I am still hoping that China is proven to have done a Bio/Cyber Act of War against these United States. Multiple Companies, Elected/Appointed Government officials and individual Citizens are complicit. Our Cyber Terrorist Defense people have been tracking the players since 2018 as part of a RICO to be held within a Military Tribunal. Traitors sometimes think they are just part of the ‘Game’ especially when they become full of themselves like this embarrassment in uniform.
Sounds like Milli Vanilli is preparing to fall on his sword!
He did his job and obstructed President Trump for four years and it is now time for him to take the fall. But I’m sure he will be well paid for taking one for the team!!
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Yeah he will. He’s being squeezed. Has been for some time.
He’ll probably go to work for CNN.
Milley is unfit to serve as Joint Chief of Staff, but he fits the bill for an unqualified Commander in Chief’s hair-brained, egocentric agendas.
Wouldn’t it have made more sense to pour the foundation before constructing the high rise ?
Apparently not to anyone connected with this Administration.
The knives are out. State department lackeys are not gonna be Woke general’s scapegoat.
General Milley-Vanilli
Thoroughly Moronic Milley
Tweedledee to Lloyd Austin’s Tweedledum.
Taiwan and the Ukraine have never felt more secure with these two threats to Presidents Xi and Putin.
This is the same General that’s not worried about China.
Complained about PDJT stopping the arson of a historic church in DC.
We don’t need no stinkin woke Generals.
He isnt worried about China because he is one of its assets.
I guess now you know why so many americans have been left behind…..
The British are going in rescuing their people?
Make sense now?
At least they will get their mail in ballots
Good Lord.
US Black Hawk Helicopters Captured by Taliban as ‘Horrified’ Senators Demand DOD Audit
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Likely billions of dollars of US weapons and vehicles are now in the hands of the #Taliban after the collapse of #Afghanistan, with numerous videos and photos surfacing online showing Taliban members seizing the equipment.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/billions-of-dollars-in-us-weapons-aircraft-likely-seized-by-taliban_3956556.html?utm_source=gab
I think the recent events will get General Milley promoted to his fifth star and an expanded military pension. And when American troops are slaughtered unnecessarily under his watch, he will be given a lucrative cable TV contract at CNN or MSNBC, or perhaps a high-profile executive / consultant position within the military industrial complex.
Don’t forget, the worthless, spineless, hapless, and gutless Republicans are equally deserving of your fury for basically doing nothing about Afghanistan (to date) and certainly nothing about the 2020 election fraud that got us here.
Milley – ROTC Princeton.
One wonders about the similarity of US under Jo Sh_ _, Our AristOverlords, and Milley, and the Americans under the Taliban.
One suspects the Dark Age Barbarians are less degenerate than the Feudal Aristocracy.
The Warlords are actually less fixated on self-aggrandizement.
It’s clear there are more questions than answers with regard to this virus and this vaccine.
So how do we get to some answers and fairly quickly?
Especially when the left controls the media and thus the headlines and fear mongering.
When they control the stats thus no why we don’t see VAX vs UNVAX serious case comparison.
When they control the narrative that iis being painted that it is the UNVAXED causing this to the Vaccinated.
So what can we do?
1) Unite a group of honest, independent Pathologists maybe from America’s Frontline Doctors, to conduct 50-100 Autopsies for the family’s of a loved ones who died unexpectedly AND were fully vaccinated in order to help them better understand the possible cause of death.
2) The family could sign a release if they wish to allow or not allow doctors to include their findings from that patient in a published report (of course without names so no HIPPA issues)
3) This group of expert pathologists would be able to look closely at what, if anything the spike proteins are/were doing in the body and to see if ADE may have been occurring.
4) Funding for this initiative could come from the 100M MAGA supporters who give $5, $10, $20 etc to help cover these costs of these autopsies.
5) This group of pathologists write up their findings and have it peer reviewed and published for the world to learn about their findings, whatever they may be.
I don’t see any other way to help determine what might be possibly going on other than conducting complete autopsies and why would anyone be against a family trying to learn what exactly happened to their loved one who died unexpectedly.
Autopsies are Science so they can’t Pooh Pooh the science.
can we find one hospital to promote, that will hire nurses fired over a vaccine mandate? (this is your first roadblock or victory)
if nobody in this entire CTH community can name 1 hospital, you will know your answer….
Cleveland Clinic has no vaccine mandate after 2,549 health care workers who got COVID and recovered then chose not to get the vaccine and ZERO of them have ever been re-infected or gotten the Delta Variant.
So if I’m a health care worker and my employer is requiring the jab, I’d consider calling Cleveland Clinic
great info. your running list are good. if you can keep the list of hospitals named… that arent mandating… that will come in handly later for promoting
Sorry I posted this on the wrong thread. Admin please feel free to delete as I reposted on the correct thread.
Was the deal arranged to transfer high-grade weapons and intel to the Taliban? And part of this was the theatrical abandonment, creating the explanation for the weapons transfer? That is, the weapons transfer needed a cover story, so “hey, we had to run…” was the excuse for doing what was actually intended? Smells like Hussein.
oops – left the keys in the car!
Outgoing Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, forced out by Obama: “Over and over again, I see other people talk about our mission, your mission, and the context of it being immigration or the current crisis today being an immigration crisis. I firmly believe that it is a national security crisis. Immigration is just a subcomponent of it, and right now, it’s just a cover for massive amounts of smuggling going across the southwest border — to include Terrorists at a level we have never seen before. That’s a real threat.”–that doesn’t include the killers, rapists, child molesters, gangsters, traffickers and spies that Obama is letting in.
The Fake Attorney General announced that Open Borders zealots from the State Dept. will now rubberstamp all asylum applications instead of a hearing before an immigration judge.
At this point, I think Acting President Obama will try to salt as many Brotherhood terrorists as possible in with the translators. It would not surprise me if some of those C-17s were ordered to land in Pakistan and pick up more “Afghanis”, i.e., Iranians, Pakistanis, Iraqi ISIS, etc..
If that shocks you, you’re not paying attention.
“Don’t be afraid to see what you see.”–Actual President Reagan
Rest in the Vine: The Afghanistan Deal, The Iran Deal, The Libya Deal,
The Free Syrian Army Deal, The Egyptian Green Revolution Deal,
The Pakistan Vacation Deal: Sensing a Pattern Here…
Don’t be coy, Sundance. If it is intentional to create cover, then cover for what exactly? Perhaps you laid this out in an earlier post and I missed it, but I’m finding it difficult to believe that this was calculated, because so far the only fruits of it seem to be the implosion of the Biden administration.
Biden was installled therefore always expendable. This is simply the execution of his removal and the cover for multiple points of corruption brokerage.
I don’t buy that excuse, if for no other reason than the fallout isn’t just hitting Biden, it’s landing on everyone in his administration. If the “plan” were to funnel weapons to the Taliban, it seems to me it would have been more advantageous to reverse the drawdown and exit from Afghanistan, and leave a token force to guard the Afghan government, and use the Afghan army as patsy for “lost” weapon systems. It would have been a useful ploy that could have gone one for years. Now all they have accomplished is to expose themselves as incompetent fools who just killed off their golden goose.
Dictators do not care about public opinion. If you control the vote–who cares what the peasants think. Let them eat cake. The media is in on the steal. they can’t “protest” now. The goal is to drop America down in size. Mr. Citizen of the world, Obama did it for 8 years–now he’s continuing on his post-American world thru the hologram. Chaos and crisis are good things to be utilized.
It’s like a shadow–a pall of a lying spirit that has descended upon this nation. Integrity and courage are in short supply.
Everyone involved in decision making from the SecDef down should be charged with dereliction or worse.
“WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE”…
Some knew the situation and were vocal about it…https://vitalinterests.thedispatch.com/p/the-situation-in-afghanistan-is-much
Yeah, it’s intentional.
Like a former vet said on Fox, the entire purpose of the US Army Rangers is to take and secure an airport and yet…..no Army Ranger in site.
You pull out and leave the airport to the enemy while thousands of your people need a way to leave the country?
I may believe that yes, Joe Biden is in a delusional state, but when the Joint Chiefs and all the generals heard that the “Potus” was pulling out troops while leaving all others behind, with no secured airport, they only had to grab Jill Biden and say to her, “He’s delusional.” They could have stalled.
So, yeah, it’s all been done on purpose, but so many on tv are saying it’s just his incompetence.
regarding Joe Biden not answering Boris Johnson’s phone calls for the first 36 hours of this unfolding tragedy . . .
who kept President Biden from answering PM Johnson’s phone calls?
They received their talking points. Are all anchors using similar words, phrases etc.
The key is not knowing the collapse coming, but being prepared in the event there is a collapse. Trump took care of this in his withdrawal plan.
Trumps plan;
Quite simple and very easily understood by even a 3rd-grader.
A big tell this whole collapse was planned is the fact they didn’t destroy US equipment and let the Taliban confiscate it.
I remember Donald J. Trump being quite livid – as we all were, those of us watching the news and seeing with our own eyes that ISIS was driving away with all the vehicles abandoned to them . . . so he thought that was crazy, why are you letting them drive away with all those trucks and tanks?
so ISIS was able to orchestrate a very brutal campaign village after village of helpless people unable to defend themselves . . . wanton evil perpetrated . . . was it just 7th century Islamic smiting or was it also the use of drugs like Captagon to fuel endless insane energy on no food, no sleep but an endless stream of drugs fueling the brutality and horrors
Dear God knows and I truly believe that all will be revealed . . .
but the way this was handled seems like the same playbook that enabled ISIS
this clown show is going downhill fast. the former veterans and former high level military and intel will be the ones that step up here. they are already starting. americans.
“…and Director of Policy Planning Salman Ahmed.”
A name says a lot.
Is he trying to make HRC look presidential?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/canadian-prime-minister-trudeau-says-spoke-hillary-clinton-afghanistan-biden-hid-camp-david-video/
When they get done wrecking this outfit these clowns will be the first ones shot.
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People please stop blaming Milley.
Whether you like him or not, or think he is dumb or not, he is being scapegoated. He has been squeezed from all sides for some time. I am still reserving judgment as to if or whether and at what time during the Trump administration he should have… just resigned rather than spouting whatever party line he’s been ordered to spout. Unclear. Maybe he is blameworthy, especially for statements anti-Trump. Put his finger in the wind and made the wrong choice.
Be this all as it may, a focusing on Milley means that you take your focus off of the responsible parties!
JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF HAVE NO OPERATIONAL AUTHORITY OVER THE MILITARY!
Responsibility for conducting military operations goes directly from the Secretary of Defense to operational command, and bypasses the Joint Chiefs of Staff completely.
Blame that Austin and whoever in the Deep State is giving him his orders (because it sure isn’t the president).
Baloney. If Milley had integrity, he would not be gaslighting all this. Integrity would “lead” to resignation on principle.
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I’m not vouching for him or his integrity or agreeing with his choices, or whether he should take stands on principle and refuse to be the public mouthpiece. He’s spent decades following orders, though. And now he’s inches away from his retirement. I don’t personally think he’s particularly bright, but I’m not in his shoes.
But I do know that he has no power.
I’d like us to focus on the actual bad guys and power brokers, and not let them slither away undetected while we turn rage on patsies who are being pushed out in front as the responsible parties we should be hating on.
That’s the civilian command.
Milley is an excellent place to start and you go from there. Anyone with half a brain knows it is not only about Milley.
…oligarchs$ mi$-master$…
( using others as their puppet$
– and the puppets are mute about their ma$ters..
…thus far.. )
But some free people are letting it be known – for others..
That’s a little baby.
He dyes his eyebrows.
When one has their head stuck up their ass past the anal sphincter, I completely understand how he “didn’t see it coming”
intentional.. this is grounds for court marshall
The Deep State or who ever is running this country checks off another agenda item with Afghanistan. One person will take a well cushioned fall. Mark Milley is the Kevin Clinesmith of the Afghanistan fiasco.
Back when we had the Rule of Law, little fish were given immunity to give up the bigger fish.
But Clinesmith was given immunity to remain silent.
Hey, I agree Milley needs to go, but the Combatant Commander is General McKenzie at CENTCOM. He is the person with Command control over Afghanistan. Think Schwarzkopf Desert Storm, why is no one calling this coward out? I worked at CENTCOM under Schwarzkopf. He was front and center.
Woke general Milly