aggiedata said:

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Media still carries the water. Insane how far we have come to no credible news outlet. Jennifer Rubin is infuriating. Wake up!!

The White House edited transcripts with Macron, Germany called it the worst debacle in the history of NATO and Great Britain couldn't get him on the phone for 36 hours and held him in contempt but you're playing for an audience of one and we all know who that is. https://t.co/pEWTfvydol

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 22, 2021

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W said:

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where is the rest of the 82nd Airborne at the moment?

may need them on the 31st

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The mindset of the generals was revealed in the New York Times spin on the Fall of Kabul, "Miscue After Miscue, U.S. Exit Plan Unravels."

Marx-reading Milley and his team of Tall Ticket Punchers with their Boards of Medals on their chests knew surrendering the country would lead to a repeat of the Fall of Saigon. They thought the Afghan soldiers would be willing to die for our country in retreat, just like the Vietnamese did.

The story began, "The nation's top national security officials assembled at the Pentagon early on April 24 for a secret meeting to plan the final withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. It was two weeks after President Biden had announced the exit over the objection of his generals, but now they were carrying out his orders.

"In a secure room in the building's extreme basement, two floors below ground level, Defense Secretary
Lloyd J. Austin III and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with top White House and intelligence officials. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken joined by video conference. After four hours, two things were clear.

"First, Pentagon officials said they could pull out the remaining 3,500 American troops, almost all deployed at Bagram Air Base, by July 4 two months earlier than the Sept. 11 deadline Mr. Biden had set. The plan would mean closing the airfield that was the American military hub in Afghanistan, but Defense Department officials did not want a dwindling, vulnerable force and the risks of service members dying in a war declared lost.

"Second, State Department officials said they would keep the American Embassy open, with more than 1,400 remaining Americans protected by 650 Marines and soldiers. An intelligence assessment presented at the meeting estimated that Afghan forces could hold off the Taliban for one to two years.

There was brief talk of an emergency evacuation plan helicopters would ferry Americans to the civilian airport in Kabul, the capital but no one raised, let alone imagined, what the United States would do if the Taliban gained control of access to that airport, the only safe way in and out of the country once Bagram closed.

"The plan was a good one, the group concluded.
"Four months later, the plan is in shambles as Mr. Biden struggles to explain how a withdrawal most Americans supported went so badly wrong in its execution. On Friday, as scenes of continuing chaos and suffering at the airport were broadcast around the world, Mr. Biden went so far as to say that 'I cannot promise what the final outcome will be, or what it will be that it will be without risk of loss.'"
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The plan was a good one, the group concluded.

Wrong Way Corrigan thought he had a good plan, too.

So Milley and the rest thought after we left in September, our Afghanistan allies would be our fall guys, just like the South Vietnamese were a half-century ago.

Milley was the expert because 41 years ago at Princeton, he wrote a 185-page-long senior thesis titled "A Critical Analysis of Revolutionary Guerrilla Organization in Theory and Practice."

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sicandtiredTXN said:

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Every press conference they are asked for a breakdown of the numbers they claim for how many are US Citizens and every press conference they show up without the breakdown. Kirby is a complete buffoon, they know they are going to be asked and they are purposely not divulging that breakdown.

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nortex97 said:

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On the planning for the surrender of Kabul/Afghanistan to the Taliban;

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The mindset of the generals was revealed in the New York Times spin on the Fall of Kabul, "Miscue After Miscue, U.S. Exit Plan Unravels."

Marx-reading Milley and his team of Tall Ticket Punchers with their Boards of Medals on their chests knew surrendering the country would lead to a repeat of the Fall of Saigon. They thought the Afghan soldiers would be willing to die for our country in retreat, just like the Vietnamese did.

The story began, "The nation's top national security officials assembled at the Pentagon early on April 24 for a secret meeting to plan the final withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. It was two weeks after President Biden had announced the exit over the objection of his generals, but now they were carrying out his orders.

"In a secure room in the building's extreme basement, two floors below ground level, Defense Secretary
Lloyd J. Austin III and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with top White House and intelligence officials. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken joined by video conference. After four hours, two things were clear.

"First, Pentagon officials said they could pull out the remaining 3,500 American troops, almost all deployed at Bagram Air Base, by July 4 two months earlier than the Sept. 11 deadline Mr. Biden had set. The plan would mean closing the airfield that was the American military hub in Afghanistan, but Defense Department officials did not want a dwindling, vulnerable force and the risks of service members dying in a war declared lost.

"Second, State Department officials said they would keep the American Embassy open, with more than 1,400 remaining Americans protected by 650 Marines and soldiers. An intelligence assessment presented at the meeting estimated that Afghan forces could hold off the Taliban for one to two years.

There was brief talk of an emergency evacuation plan helicopters would ferry Americans to the civilian airport in Kabul, the capital but no one raised, let alone imagined, what the United States would do if the Taliban gained control of access to that airport, the only safe way in and out of the country once Bagram closed.

"The plan was a good one, the group concluded.
"Four months later, the plan is in shambles as Mr. Biden struggles to explain how a withdrawal most Americans supported went so badly wrong in its execution. On Friday, as scenes of continuing chaos and suffering at the airport were broadcast around the world, Mr. Biden went so far as to say that 'I cannot promise what the final outcome will be, or what it will be that it will be without risk of loss.'"
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The plan was a good one, the group concluded.

Wrong Way Corrigan thought he had a good plan, too.

So Milley and the rest thought after we left in September, our Afghanistan allies would be our fall guys, just like the South Vietnamese were a half-century ago.

Milley was the expert because 41 years ago at Princeton, he wrote a 185-page-long senior thesis titled "A Critical Analysis of Revolutionary Guerrilla Organization in Theory and Practice."

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Milley has to be fired.

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