That Biden’s rush to pull out from the Afghanistan is beyond question…
That EVERYBODY begged the President to slow the departure action is also on the record…
The Army has done a exhaustive in-house after action report that documents this…
The report has become available to the Wash Post, which has done a piece on it….
In the end?
The evacuation from Afghanistan was chaotic , unruly and left mostly in the troops in the country to handle as best they could…
Following their commander they did their job….
But no amount of double talk and denial is going to absolve Joseph Biden for creating an awful situation in the hasty pull out….
He gave the order…..
“No,” he said. “No. That’s not what I was told.”
The president, pressed on whether he was rejecting the accounts in the reports, said he was.
“Yes, I am,” Biden said. “I am rejecting them.”
The president was questioned about his administration’s handling of the evacuation after The Washington Post first reported this week that U.S. commanders overseeing the hastily arranged operation told military investigators that senior White House and State Department officials resisted their efforts to rally support for more meticulous planning well before Kabul’s fall on Aug 15.
The criticism from military officials, including Rear Adm. Peter Vasely, the operation’s senior commander, appeared in a U.S. Army report, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information Act request. Spanning 2,000 pages, the documents detail the life-or-death decisions faced by U.S. service members ordered to secure Hamid Karzai International Airport for 17 harrowing days as the United States raced to evacuate more than 120,000 American citizens and foreign allies who aided the war effort….
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Brig. Gen. Farrell Sullivan, a Marine Corps general overseeing aspects of the operation, told investigators that it was his opinion that the National Security Council “was not seriously planning for an evacuation.”
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said this week that the report illustrates how people across the U.S. government “were working hard under incredibly difficult circumstances to make the best decisions they could in real time,” and that effort was unprecedented.
“Nothing like this had been attempted since the end of the Vietnam War,” he said. “Everyone’s heart, up and down the chain, was in the right place.”…
I have criticism for the military who well knew that the situation there was hopeless and had been that way for years, that the Afghan “army” was a joke,just a bunch of mercenaries who were going to melt away as as soon as we left , and that the so called “government “ was a bunch of common ordinary crooks who Shenzhen they found we were leaving took the money and ran.
Everyone knew the withdrawal was going to be messy .
The fact is though that no one really cares much about this anymore.
In fact Jack THAT is NOT true…
President Biden’s hurry out will be the place from which others world leaders see his foreign and military affairs….
There is no doubt Putin has the hasty withdrawal as a reason he is flexing at the Ukraine….
The military ‘warned’ the President….
Congress ‘warned’ the President ….
Joe Biden did not listen….
Agreed Afghanistan has ALWAYS bee a ness for the Western World…
And Biden is right to extract our military from the place now…..
But out was not ‘our finest hour’ and Biden ordered it…..
A NY Times Op-Ed piece that points to President Biden’s Han doing foreign affairs as suffering almost solely because of Biden’s insular decision making and view of projecting military strength …..
The real problem in administration policy is President Biden. The insular nature of his decision-making, including his reliance on like-minded advisers, lacks rigorous thinking and fuels a kind of arrogance that can lead to unforced errors. His casual suggestion last month that “a minor incursion” by Russia might not draw a tough response required mopping up by the administration. It also drew a bitter rebuke from Ukraine’s president. Most egregiously, Mr. Biden let Russia know it need not fear the prospect of U.S. troops fighting to defend the sovereignty of Ukraine and postwar order, saying publicly that “there is not going to be any American forces moving into Ukraine.”…
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