The evacuation was planned and executed by the US military. Why do MAGAS hate the military so much while pretending to support them?
Senator Warren: (
02:01:15) By 2021, it was clear that 2,500 troops could not successfully prop up a government that had been losing ground and support to the Taliban for years....... Once President Biden made the decision to have US forces leave the country
who designed the evacuation?
Sec. Austin: (
02:01:55) ........So, once he made the decision, then of course, from a military perspective, in terms of the retrograde of the people and the equipment,
that planning was done by Central Command, and certainly principally, by General Miller. Very detailed planning, and then we came back and briefed the entire interagency on the details of that plan.
Senator Warren: (
02:03:03) Okay. So the military planned the evacuation.
Did President Biden follow your advice on executing on the evacuation plan?
Sec. Austin: (
02:03:12)
He did.
Senator Warren: (
02:03:15)
Did President Biden give you all the resources that you needed?
Sec. Austin: (
02:03:21) From my view,
he did.
Senator Warren: (
02:03:22) D
id President Biden ignore your advice on the evacuation at he point?
Sec. Austin: (
02:03:30) No Senator,
he did not.
Senator Warren: (
02:03:32)
Did he refuse any request for anything that you needed or asked for?
Sec. Austin: (
02:03:37)
No. Senator Warren: (
02:03:38).....if we had stayed in Afghanistan for another year, would it have made a fundamental difference?
Sec. Austin: (
02
05) Again, it depends on what size you remain in at, and what your objectives are. There are a range of possibilities, but
if you stayed there at a forced posture of 2,500, certainly you'd be in a fight with the Taliban, and you'd have to reinforce yourself.
Mark Milley and Lloyd Austin testified on the withdrawal from Afghanistan on 9/28. Read the transcript here.
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