...... 46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan......on Wednesday for the "extraordinary disaster" of the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan in which 13 service members were killed, calling the president "delusional" in his assessment of the event.
In his opening statement prior to hearing the testimony of Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) accused Biden of misleading the American people after vowing to stay in Afghanistan until all Americans were out, adding that the withdrawal operation "will go down in history as one of the greatest failures of American leadership."
"I fear the president may be delusional," Rogers said.
"This wasn’t an extraordinary success, it was an extraordinary disaster. It will go down in history as one of the greatest failures of American leadership."
Milley appeared before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday for a second day to review the 20-year Afghanistan war and the botched withdrawal that ultimately led to the deaths of 13 US service members.
He testified alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of Central Command who oversaw US troops in Afghanistan.
During his opening statement on Tuesday, Austin repeated his acknowledgment that the withdrawal went awry, listing several reasons for the various failures.
Austin laid out that the US "did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership," in the Afghan government, as well as the "damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations" by Afghanistan's Caped President Ghani’s command.
"We did not anticipate the snowball effect caused by the deals that the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
commander struck with local leaders in the wake of the Doha agreement," he said, pointing to the "demoralizing effect" that had on Afghan soldiers.
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