Owned.....my ass.
Lloyd Austin is a token pick.....and he's about as effective (unqualified) as a token usually is. He spent time as a military contractor immediately after retiring from Active-Duty in 2016....and required a congressional waiver to even be allowed to be Sec of Defense....because he didn't wait the required 7 years. But Biden needed a minority hire (Black...Hipanic...or Black Female or Tranny).....so he was granted a waiver.
The first thing on the agenda was getting rid of whites (Trump Voters) out of the military.
After this massive screw up in Afghanistan....he should be forced to resign....because it was ultimately his decision to bail on Bagram Airbase and leave behind $85 billion dollars in arms and military equipment.
This is nothing new.....because he was in command of CENTCOM when Obama pulled out of Iraq and helped arm fund ISIS. If you want someone that's good at failure....Austin is your man.
Lloyd Austin was the four-star Army general in charge of the U.S. Central Command with responsibility for Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
For more than a year, ISIS rampaged across Syria and Iraq, and the Pentagon plan that Austin was implementing to reverse its advance was sputtering on all fronts.
Now, the combatant commander, called by some "the invisible general" for his reticence for speaking in public, was in the hot seat, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee and getting grilled by Chairman John McCain. He was becoming more lathered up as Austin struggled to defend a strategy to counter ISIS that reeked of failure.
The year was 2015.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, with respect to the ongoing operations in Iraq and Syria, despite some slow movement at the tactical level, we continue to make progress across the battlespace," Austin said in his opening statement.
McCain was stunned with disbelief.
"I must say I've been a member of the committee for nearly 30 years, and I've never heard testimony like this. Never," McCain fumed at the infamous Sept. 16 hearing.
"Basically, general, what you're telling us is that everything's fine as we see hundreds of thousands of refugees leave and flood Europe, as we're seeing now 250,000 Syrians slaughtered, as you see more and more Iranian control of the Shia militia," McCain continued. "I have never seen a hearing that is as divorced from the reality of every outside expert."
At that point, it had been a year since President Barack Obama had set a goal to "degrade and ultimately destroy" ISIS — a year under Austin's command that had been filled with embarrassing setbacks.