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2021-09-03 Afghanistan

State Department's 'Turf Wars' Over Trump Program 'Mucked Up' Evacuation of Americans From Afghanistan

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-09-03 01:27|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
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#1 Two very bad things were apparently going on at the very same time earlier this summer.

I suspect "two" would be a very conservative estimate.

Biden watched the entire Osama bin Laden - Abbottabad, Pakistan operation go down just before Obama was re-elected. His ill-fated 9/11 AFG (made for TV) withdrawal scheme was intended to be his and his WH strategy advisor's Abbottabad media success story.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-03 07:46|| 2021-09-03 07:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Read a piece that said the debacle was a three way turf fight between the Executive group, what he called 'the intellegence kiddies', and the remote control military.
Short version: the intel guys got shanked.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-09-03 11:11|| 2021-09-03 11:11|| Front Page Top

#3 BTW
the piece was:
https://bigcountryexpatoriginal.blogspot.com/2021/08/deep-state-war.html

Posted by ed in texas 2021-09-03 11:12|| 2021-09-03 11:12|| Front Page Top

#4 With such a weak chief executive (who has never run anything before in his whole life), the bureaucratic turf wars are the way the country will be run for the next 3 1/2 years. Not looking forward to it.

Posted by Tom 2021-09-03 11:43|| 2021-09-03 11:43|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ This is basically the same bunch of guys who think they can control the climate of the planet and re-engineer the US power grid.

And today is the Friday before a 3-day weekend, prime bad news dumping time, so who knows what fresh hell DC will announce this evening.

Posted by Matt 2021-09-03 12:12|| 2021-09-03 12:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Walters resigned in protest, telling Blinken, "Sir, you deserve to have leaders who can get behind the decisions you make. I can’t do that. So I’m leaving,"

Daaaaaaaaaaamn!

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-09-03 14:46|| 2021-09-03 14:46|| Front Page Top

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