Blue State Blues: More ‘Woke’ Generals Need to Testify About Their Failures
Joel B. Pollak 1 Oct 2021
Biden lied; people died.
That’s the inescapable conclusion after this week’s testimony in Congress by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair General Mark Milley; Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin; and CENTCOM Commander Gen. Kenneth McKenzie.
In August, President Joe Biden told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that none of his military advisers suggested that he keep a residual force of 2,500 troops in the country to ensure that Afghanistan did not fall to the Taliban. That was false.
The military brass told Congress that they had, indeed, presented that option to Biden. Milley went further: he noted that in November 2020, then-President Donald Trump had ordered all troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan, but that after the military warned him of a potential collapse, he rescinded the order. Trump wanted to pull out of the country, but he listened to his military advisers.
Not so Joe Biden, who insisted on withdrawal — but on Sep. 11, not May 1, which ensured disaster.
Not only did the new date break the agreement Trump had reached with the Taliban — in negotiations started by Obama, by the way — but it also placed the withdrawal smack in the middle of the summer “fighting season,” rather than the winter.
The generals effectively threw Biden under the bus — and he deserves it, frankly, after telling the country that “the likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.”
But note how the generals carefully sidestepped their own responsibility. We didn’t learn enough about the curious decision to abandon the Bagram air base. We didn’t learn much about the intelligence failures that caused U.S. forces to be so surprised by the sudden turn of events.
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