The reverberations from President Biden’s decision to pull out of Afghanistan are growing….
While the Pentagon and Intelligence community are happy to be free of Donald Trump’s antics?
They now are broadcasting worry about a boss who like early Trump?
Seems to feel he can talk his way out of conflicts….
They just did so to Congress , which is NOT happy with Biden’s Afghan orders for the military ….
Seems to feel he can talk his way out of conflicts….
The Taliban and al-Qaeda could licking their chops for revenge over what’s left over….
The most likely adjustment to the final policy could include a skeleton Spec Ops military , Drone Op and intelligence presence left in Afghanistan that could be ramped ups in need be….
“We’ll not take our eye off the terrorist threat,” Biden said as he announced his decision, to end a war that is now America’s longest, a goal that has eluded earlier presidents.
Top Biden aides said the move, which came despite warnings from military and intelligence leaders that withdrawal could permit a diminished al-Qaeda to regroup, was necessary to comply with a 2020 withdrawal agreement President Donald Trump negotiated with the Taliban, and to allow the United States to focus on more pressing challenges, like China’s military rise….
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Mick Mulroy, a former CIA paramilitary officer who also served as a top Pentagon official for the Middle East during the Trump administration, said he understood the desire to leave.
“We’ve reduced our exposure and we’ve significantly reduced our casualties,” he said. “I just don’t think the investment of 3,000 troops is too much to keep what we’ve gained in 20 years.”…
Anyone who knows Joe Biden’s history would know what he is trying to get out of Afghanistan ….
Three months after taking office, President Biden has reestablished the formal decision process, which his predecessor seemed determined to destroy, that has guided U.S. administrations through foreign policymaking since the Second World War.
Afghanistan was among the first major issues on which the process, organized and directed by the National Security Council, became fully operational. Dozens of high-level meetings were held, including four separate sessions with the president in the Situation Room. Military, intelligence and diplomatic assessments were compiled, and consultations were held with allies and lawmakers….
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Yet at the end of the day, Biden did not budge from where he began nearly 13 years ago, when a visit to Afghanistan as vice president-elect convinced him, he said last week, that “more and endless American military force could not create or sustain a durable Afghan government.”….
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