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2021-08-13 Afghanistan

This Afghan rout is entirely on Joe Biden

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Posted by Frank G 2021-08-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top
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#1 ...The inevitable post-mortems will also likely find that a disturbing percentage of Afghan forces - both police and military - simply did not exist; 'ghost soldiers' whose pay was being collected by their putative commanders.

And that we knew it.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-08-13 04:59|| 2021-08-13 04:59|| Front Page Top

#2 I remember from my Homeland Security days a group of Middle Eastern "educators" who were running a fast growing private school for learning English as a second Language for immigrants, and how one of the classroom auditors brought the police in because she suspected fraud since she thought some of the people looked familiar. They were given auditing schedules and asked to make lodging arrangements for visiting sudit staff and bussed the same 30 people to site after site....sound familiar? Everything old is new again!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-08-13 12:04|| 2021-08-13 12:04|| Front Page Top

#3 I think the senior generals deserve at least half of the blame for this fiasco. President Trump ordered them to prepare for this when he was sworn in at the beginning of 2016. But they blew him off until last year, and then they delayed until President Biden was sworn in and agreed to delay a few extra months. So the generals have had five years to plan and organize, during which time they clearly did absolutely nothing to prepare our troops, our allies, and the Afghans for even the possibility of us leaving.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-13 20:58|| 2021-08-13 20:58|| Front Page Top

#4 So you are saying the generals spent the last 5 years kicking the Af-can down the road...

Posted by SteveS 2021-08-13 21:10|| 2021-08-13 21:10|| Front Page Top

#5 If I’d said that, I’d send myself to my room for it, SteveS, instead of ordering you there. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-13 22:59|| 2021-08-13 22:59|| Front Page Top

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