Antontoo , Agree with you, with the exception of cant state as fact why it was left for the new president. Will again repeat that war is about death destruction & chaos. And no one has yet replied to my question, can anyone point to Any WAR that has ended with out chaos.
There is always chaos in war, but that chaos can be minimized. It has to be MANAGED, and done so correctly. This did not happen with our exit from Afghanistan.
Our military has been in this business for a couple hundred years, and we have learned many lessons that were simply not applied to this clusterf*.
HUGE mistakes were made, primarily because (ignorant, inexperienced, and even mentally inept) politicians ran it.
USUALLY I would say 'had the politicians have ordered our top military leaders to execute the operation to evacuate our citizens and let them do their jobs things would have turned out better....but in this case our top military leaders were more focused on political agendas and ideology.
- Again, Sect of Defense Austin ordered the entire military to stand down IOT root our 'white supremacists' - aka Conservatives - and kick them out of the military.
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Milley's top priority during the early months of this withdrawal was forcing our US military academies to teach Critical Race Theory, teaching them to hate each other and our country. (More than 1 SpecOps member stepped forward to warn Milley that injecting such divisive into the military was dangerous, that he and his teams' missions and lives depend on mutual trust. )
- I currently 'know' USCENTCOM Commander McKenzie very well, and i have not been impressed with his military knowledge or decision -making, which was exposed as seriously flawed. Making the decision to abandon / surrender Bagram Air Base - BEFORE All Americans had been evacuated - was both a huge tactical and strategic mistake.
The call to take our troops out BEFORE ALL US CITIZENS AND ALLIES HAD BEEN EVACUATED - was a massive FAIL. While Austin and Milley may have been the ones to advise giving up Bagram, you can bet it was not made my an experienced and intelligent military leader. Austin and Milley proved they don't qualify as either.
Taking our troops out 1st before Americans were evacuated
Giving up Bagram
Withdrawing into the airport in Kabul
Rejecting the Taliban's offer for us to secure Kabul
Ordering our troops NOT to leave the airport to help evacuate citizens
Allowing the Taliban to surround the airport & establish check points
Refusing to act when it was discovered the Taliban were blocking citizens from getting to the airport...and beating Americans....
...and more...
This all REEKS of a political-run military operation which should have remained in military hands, no politicians.
We had been standing by for months, waiting to initiate and conduct a
Noncombatant Evacuation Operations (NEO), but the order to do so was never given,
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Noncombatant Evacuation Operations (NEO) is the ordered (mandatory) or authorized (voluntary) departure of civilian noncombatants and nonessential military personnel from danger in an overseas country to a designated safe haven, typically within the continental United States.
It was President Biden's Secretary of State, John Blinken's and his State Department's job / duty to call for the NEO to be initiated, and at that point the military acts swiftly to begin the evacuation process. It was their duty to, as part of the process, to coordinate with Americans in Afghanistan to organize the who/what/where/when details with Americans in Afghanistan - to inform them a NEO was being conducted and how to prepare for the evacuation.
The Department of State (DOS) recommends an evacuation, and the Department of the Army—as the Department of Defense (DOD) Executive Agent for repatriation (RE-PAT) planning and operations—coordinates the execution of NEO.
Blinken, known as a complete douche bag / failure, did not do any of this. He refused to call for a NEO. INSTEAD HE AND HIS STATE DEPARTMENT TOLD AMERICANS IN AFGHANISTAN THAT
THEIR OWN EVACUATION WAS THEIR RESPONSIBILITY, THAT
THEY HAD TO FIND THEIR OWN WAY TO MAKE IT TO THE KABUL AIRPORT IF THEY WANTED TO BE EVACUATED, THAT
THEY WERE ON THEIR OWN, AND THAT
THE UNITED STATES WOULD NOT HELP THEM.
WTF?!
The military was rearing to go. We had already initiated the planning and were waiting for the call, a cal lthat never came because Blinken failed to do his job!
-- THAT son of a bit@h definitely needs to be fired!
Want more evidence Biden is attempting to politicize and purge the military of those who don't subscribe to Liberal Progressive Socialist / Marxist Democrat ideology and agendas?
In addition to Sect of Def Austin attempting to force the military to purge conservatives from the military and the Chairman of the Jt Chiefs of Staff, Gen Milly, FORCING indoctrinating CRT to be taught in our military academies, you now have THIS:
In the wake of his self-inflicted defeat and humiliating retreat in Afghanistan, Joe Biden has found
pjmedia.com
Austin and Milley, btw,have connections to Obama's hand in 'fundamental change' in our military.
- How Austin ever made Sect of Defense after advising / telling Obama that ISIS was a 'flash in the pan', a 'Jay Vee team' is a mystery:
"According to administration officials, General Lloyd Austin, then the commander of Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East, told the White House that the Islamic State was “a flash in the pan.” This analysis led Obama, in an interview with The New Yorker, to describe the constellation of jihadist groups in Iraq and Syria as terrorism’s “jayvee team.”
As Taliban fighters have seen success after success routing Afghan security forces amid the drawdown
townhall.com
- ...while Gen Milley is an 'Obama General':
We did not learn that the DOD had run out of ammunition until President Trump told us. That happened under President Obama’s watch.
While Obama was president, Gen. Milley served in these capacities:
- November 2011-December 2012: Commander of the 10th Mountain Division.
- 2012-2014: Commanding General of III Corps.
- 2014-2015: Commanding General of United States Army Forces Command.
- August 14, 2015: Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
Our military ran out of bullets under Gen. Milley’s watch. He had more than 5 years to address the problem publicly, but he didn’t say a word. He knew about it, but he kept his mouth shut. That’s dereliction of duty.
Expect a housecleaning at the DOD during President Trump’s second term.
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