My latest in PJ Media:
The Biden White House has been doing everything it can think of to turn the debacle in Afghanistan into a victory, or rather, something that looks enough like a victory to allow the establishment media to run with it and try to fool the rubes. Press Secretary Jen Psaki notoriously said (with a straight face) on August 24 that the catastrophically mismanaged evacuation operation could not be termed “anything but a success.” On Saturday, the appallingly woke Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, claimed (also with a straight face) that “there was an extensive amount of planning in this.”
Milley did admit that “the collapse of the Afghan Army happened at a much faster rate and very unexpected, by pretty much everybody, and then with that is the collapse of the Afghan government. So, that was definitely a surprise.” Nevertheless, he insisted that “there was an awful lot of planning done, ROC [Rehearsal of Concept] drills, rehearsals, etc.”
They rehearsed this calamity? So Milley would have us believe. “What you saw unfold with this noncombatant evacuation operation,” he asserted, “was one of the contingency plans.” Despite the fact that Americans are still stranded in Afghanistan while Biden’s handlers actually block efforts to get them out, the woke general didn’t hesitate to boast: “And the speed at which it was executed, the flow of the aircraft, we had planes taking off every 30 to 45 minutes or so. We had — we brought in 7,000 — or 6,000 U.S. troops, and then there [were] about a thousand or more or so Afghan troops that secured HKIA [Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul].”
Not everything went swimmingly, mind you: “The first day, it was clearly chaotic, no question about it. You saw that on video, etc. But within about 24 hours, that settled down and it became a much more orderly process. The security of HKIA was challenging to say the least, and we saw the bombing. But that would have happened no matter where it was. People talk about Bagram, wherever there’s a perimeter, if there’s no outside force, if there’s no Afghan force securing it, and there wasn’t any, then there’s going to be U.S. forces on the perimeter, on the edge. And they were doing what they were asked to do, which is go out and screen and process people.”
Wait a minute. “Screen and process people”? Yet Defense One reported in late August that “security screeners at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar have detected that at least one of the Afghans who was evacuated from Kabul Airport has potential ties to ISIS.” Even worse, “the Defense Department’s Automated Biometric Identification System has flagged up to 100 of the 7,000 Afghans evacuated as prospective recipients of Special Immigration Visas as potential matches to intelligence agency watch lists.”
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gravenimage says
Woke Gen. Milley Takes a Victory Lap Over Afghanistan Disaster
………….
Moron.
Only good thing is that few Americans are buying this crap.
“Polls: Americans back end to Afghanistan war but fault Biden’s execution”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/polls-americans-back-end-afghanistan-war-fault-biden-s-execution-n1278180
Wellington says
“Moron.”
Absolutely.
Keith O says
Gotta remember GI, The scum always floats to the top!
mortimer says
Gen Milley is covering his bases, but his performance is unconvincing to both sides. History will remember that he presided over the most preventable military collapse in history and one that he could have prevented personally through leadership. He did not lead, but followed and became a yes-man like the white-haired Ghost in the White House who is a career yes-man.
Pres. Trump recently said he would have postponed the exit for 3 or 4 years if the conditions weren’t right. As Taliban irregulars moved virtually unimpeded into Afghanistan’s major cities, Milley did nothing to stop them.
His shameful negligence caused the collapse of a functioning country and empowered the primitive enemy with unbelievable weaponry. He is to blame and his negligence will be studied in military colleges for hundreds of years as the model of how generals should NOT behave.
Afghastlistan will have to re-invaded soon in the admission of Milley. The Taliban will be creating more terrorism as soon as possible. And their terrorist pals will soon set up shop and use the cache of weapons to take revenge against NATO countries.
mortimer says
Bring back Gen McMaster to lead the extermination of the Taliban once and for all.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, McMaster has said that Jihadists are “really irreligious criminals who use a perverted…interpretation of religion”. I don’t think this whitewash of Islam is actually useful. He objected to Hizb’allah being designated a terrorist organization. He also whitewashed 9/11, vaguely calling it a “mass murder attack”, with no mention of Jihad motive–not even calling it a “terrorist attack”..
Kepha says
No, Afghanistan will not have to be re-invaded. Let it stew in its own juices and remain the portal to Hell for its own people and others–a role it seems to relish.
gravenimage says
Mortimer–with all respect–Afghanistan was never a functioning country. The Taliban moved into any area where the Anerticans were not holding a surge, and few of the Afghans ever did anything to try and stop them. This is because most Afghans agree with the Taliban on imposing Shari’ah law. And even the Afghan government–such as it was–imprisoned women trying to flee forced and abusive marriages–an estimated 75% of women in prison there were in for such “crimes”–and thy had put stoning back on the books. Afghanistan also had a blasphemy law. Not anything for Americans to have to did for…
You have never siad why you think that yet more westerns have to die for this.
Afghanistan cannot be civilized.
Hank says
Biden has made himself the American equivalent of Germany’s Merkel in 2015, when she planted the (permanent future) seeds of strife and Islamization in Europe by allowing millions of migrants carrying the pathogen of Islamic doctrine to swarm into Europe after borders were more or less abolished that year.
Now, Biden just planted more of the (permanent Islamic) seeds of strife in the US (and elsewhere). End result: severe Islamization of non-Muslim host nations. Expect future demands for autonomous Muslim areas in the host country and death of the host in a 2 or more Islamic state solution. Accompanying that will be the usual “peaceful” works and perverted values (dictated by Mr. Mohammed and written in the Quran and Hadiths) accomplished by the faithful on the necks of infidels.
Spain and Austria are probably the only hosts that survived the pathogen of Islamic doctrine when it was expelled (not invited) in the 16th century. Neither did they hand over to the enemy billions upon billions upon billions of dollars of military equipment before expelling them.
mortimer says
Biden is the American equivalent of Neville Chamberlain who admitted he had been completely wrong about Hitler.
Biden has no excuse for this blunder which has caused mass calamity for the Afghan people.
Americans are in the business of helping people out of calamity, but callous, heartless Biden is the in the business CREATING calamity and mass suffering.
Biden’s place in history will be that of a bogus and the worst president.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Biden and his administration is a clown car driving off a cliff.
Giacomo Latta says
“there was an extensive amount of planning in this.”
Note to General Milley: next time do a whole lot less planning.
Keys says
Milley might think he’s doing a great job serving our country, but his retired peers do not.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/02/130-retired-generals-and-admirals-call-for-biden-administration-resignations-over-afghanistan-withdrawal/
OLD GUY says
True leaders take responsibility for their mistakes and share their success with the troops that actually make things happen.
Gen. Willey Milley is now in love with the camera and media stardom and cares more about his political future than getting the job done. Thats not leadership General.