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2021-09-15 Afghanistan
Top Democrat on Senate committee slams Biden admin, US withdrawal from Afghanistan
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday blasted the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra)
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
over its handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal and threatened to subpoena the US defense secretary to testify.

During the second day of a committee hearing on Afghanistan to question Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Senator Bob Menendez revealed that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin refused to testify. But Menendez said he might subpoena Austin "in the near future" if he does not step forward to testify.

"I expect that the [Defense] Secretary will avail himself to the committee in the near future. If he does not, I may consider the use of the committee’s subpoena power to compel him and others over the course of these last 20 years to testify," Menendez said.

"A full accounting of the US response to this crisis is not complete without the Pentagon, especially when it comes to understanding the complete collapse of the US-trained and funded Afghan military," he added.

While Menendez said the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was the right move, he said the manner in which it was carried out was wrong.

The US withdrawal was "clearly and fatally flawed."

The Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
took over within days despite US intelligence reports suggesting that the Afghan government and army would be able to fend for themselves for at least two months.

And since then, the US has refused to recognize the Taliban-run government despite ongoing communication between the murderous Moslems and US officials.

Posted by Fred 2021-09-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top
 File under: Taliban/IEA 

#1 The Pentagon and State Department obviously disagreed with this move. So they did it as poorly as they were able: abandoning Americans is something of a specialty of State. They did the same thing in Wuhan.
Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-09-15 00:43||   2021-09-15 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Yes, there definitely appears to be a rift between Foggy Bottom, DoD, the Klingon's and the White House. The closing of the Agency's Eagle Base well prior to final events was a shocker. My guess is Biden's White House handlers, disgusted with Foggy Bottom and the Agency, went the ill-fated 9/11 celebration charade by themselves. Blinken's body language is one of fearful and embarrassed conspirator. Biden's body language presents blissful ignorance and acute Sun Downers serenade.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-15 01:38||   2021-09-15 01:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Kabuki theater or some in the Party smelling blood in the water?
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-09-15 06:24||   2021-09-15 06:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes
Posted by Elmomogum Lover of the Danes4553 2021-09-15 07:17||   2021-09-15 07:17|| Front Page Top

#5 There are reportedly an unknown number referred to as "some" high rankers in the Pentagon who recognized what General Milley's instructions amounted to and are willing to testify against him.

The totalitarian model would see these people suddenly disappear while a new calamitous crisis emerges to muster the media toward a new propaganda objective.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-15 07:23||   2021-09-15 07:23|| Front Page Top

#6 while a new calamitous crisis emerges to muster the media toward a new propaganda objective

Look! Over there! A white supremacist from Compton!

And new COVID variants. (Did I say 'delta'? I meant gamma. Er, chi. I mean, sigma.)
Posted by Bubba Grundy5101 2021-09-15 07:32||   2021-09-15 07:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Did Menendez preface his remarks with "as a fellow pederast, I usually agree with President Biden... "
Posted by Jean DuSable 2021-09-15 16:02||   2021-09-15 16:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Is President Milley going to be asked to testify?
Posted by Airandee 2021-09-15 19:19||   2021-09-15 19:19|| Front Page Top

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