Biden’s Indefatigable Incompetence
Pitiful, helpless pusillanimity in Afghanistan.
by Jed Babbin
August 22, 2021, 11:02 PM
We have to conclude that President Biden and his generals are guilty of indefatigable incompetence because of their handling of the evacuation of U.S. citizens from Afghanistan.
First there is the paltry number of Americans brought out so far (about 2,500, according to Maj. Gen. William Taylor). Then there is the Taliban’s Biden-granted immunity to punishment for interfering in the evacuation by beating U.S. citizens, blocking their access to the Kabul airport, and stealing their passports. And then, of course, is the fact that our military has been restricted to operating within the Kabul airport. With the exception of one helicopter-borne effort that went all of 200 yards off the airport grounds, no forces have reportedly ventured into Kabul to bring our civilians to safety.
We’ve known, at least since Friday, that the Brits, Germans, French, and others have been sending their troops into Kabul and other areas to evacuate their civilian citizens. Also on Friday, we learned that Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue, the commander of the 82nd Airborne, called his British counterpart to demand that they stop evacuating civilians because it made the US military’s effort look bad. (Donohue denies making this request.)
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