Republicans Blame Pentagon Planner Colin Kahl for Bungled Afghanistan Strategy

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Republicans Blame Pentagon Planner Colin Kahl for Bungled Afghanistan Strategy

Sen. Hagerty: 'We have someone not even qualified for a security clearance at the center of Biden's incompetently planned withdrawal''

Adam Kredo and Alana Goodman • September 2, 2021 5:00 am

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Pentagon strategy chief Colin Kahl is in the hot seat over his role in the Biden administration's bungled Afghanistan withdrawal, four months after Senate Republicans unanimously opposed his nomination and warned that his appointment would be disastrous for national defense policy.

Kahl, the civilian head of policy planning at the Department of Defense and third highest ranking department official, has been a key player in planning for the Afghanistan withdrawal and the day-to-day policy decisions on the ground. While several Biden administration officials have been publicly defending the president’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, Republican foreign policy leaders say Kahl is the behind-the-scenes player largely responsible for the botched evacuation of Afghanistan and decision to leave Americans stranded in the country. The GOP lawmakers, who also have criticized Secretary of State Antony Blinken and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, now say their fears about Kahl's lack of fitness for the role are coming to pass.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R., Tenn.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the Washington Free Beacon that Kahl "should never have been nominated by the president or confirmed by the Senate" and should be held responsible for the Biden administration's failures in Afghanistan, including for the hundreds of Americans who have reportedly been left behind. "In Kahl, we have someone not even qualified for a security clearance at the center of President Biden's incompetently planned and disorderly withdrawal from Afghanistan."

Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), another member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the Free Beacon that Kahl and Pentagon leadership "are more worried about woke messaging than combat readiness. And the entire White House national security team is being bullied by a band of medieval terrorists. They are overseeing America's decline, and it is an absolute disgrace."

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[Killer Clouds]

The DCP has to come up with a scapegoat. They can't let Traitor Joe take the fall.

[christian]

Pentagon strategy chief Colin Kahl is to blame for Biden rule, and Biden was committed hardcore to what he did, and quite unashamed, even proud.  We need to get to the bottom of this and blame some janitor some where!
 

Teflon bill clinton, teflon Obama, and now Teflon biden, none of them to blame for what they did.  So much evil, protected by so much 'innocence', or is that useful ____s.  May they burn in a hell to at least match the hell they made/make for others.
Lovers of liars/deniers fueled their atrocities, may they pay in full.

Hitlery intentionally allowed Ambassador Stevens and others to be slaughtered to show the radical jihadist whose side she was one,to garner favor with the jihadist of Libya and didn't care how many Americas would die to do it.So says a top American military office who talked to her at the time.  Obama and Biden did the same by giving the radical muslims their own American Army equipment, regardless of it endangering America and aiding and abetting our fierce enemies.People over there and here are paying a horrific price and will for many years to come now. At least the Mexican drug lords, well armed are not complaining, eh ?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

This guy never served in the military so how could he possibly be competent enough to develop this type of strategy?

And it still does not absolve the generals nor Biden as they went along with it as only they had the authority to approve it.

[Wingnut]

It all falls on Stumble Bumble bum in Chief Biden.   

[christian]

You can't blame Biden for ANYTHING, he has all the rights of a President with no accountability whatsoever, much like teflon bill and teflon Obama.  there can be NO accountability of a democrat, but all blame resides on to Republicans even if they are innocent.  That's how the political stooge game is played these days.  Every time Biden plays stupid, its like God handing you proof carved in stone.  Geeze louise, this game has only been played relentlessly since the EARLY days of bill clinton in office, can the denial of morons be finally set a side ?  At least give it a little rest, even for a short while ?