our military can’t hold off a bunch of rag-tag camel jockeys that put us on the run? The joint chiefs should all be fired. If there were thousands that needed to be flown out why didn’t we create the infrastructure and protection to accomplish that goal. At a minimum fly the NGO’s and Afghans particularly the girls to Mexico and let them walk across the border.
Another laughing stock withdrawal. Nice work Biden and the Pentagon.
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The issue was inhibiting the creation of a terrorist haven. We were managing this.
I admit I supported it. So did plenty others, one of whom was tweeting last year that we would be out by Christmas.
Just a little honesty would be helpful here.
But we needed to provide the Afghans with continued high tech intelligence and air support. They were trained to fight like us and not like the Taliban.
Hard to get much smaller than that. Pulling the plug on the air support may have been what did it.
Pentagon wanted to leave 5K there which would have been a doubling in force.
retreat. Absolutely disgraceful.
And they should have. That’s onJoe no question.
I just laugh at the cultists who were calling for a total troop pullout for years (now off the RNC website) hand wringing about this. The humiliating result was bound to happen as soon as we left. We just didn’t see it. And would it have been honorable and non humiliating if they held on for a month or two?