Are they incompetent boss or are they traitors?

Like I said on page 22, this has all happened by design. Biden is out to lunch. We all know that. But his advisors and our liberal military leaders can’t be this inept.

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Originally posted by OttoSig:
Where are the thousands of Afghans being taken to?

My guess is: graves.

flashguy

https://news.yahoo.com/armed-a...ricts-235500097.html

Armed Afghan resistance forces wrested control of three districts from the Taliban, marking the first successful uprising against the group in Afghanistan since it seized control of the capital city of Kabul on Sunday.

Defense Minister Gen. Bismillah Mohammadi, who has sworn to resist the Taliban, tweeted Friday that the districts of Deh Salah, Banu, and Pul-e-Hesar in the neighboring province of Baghlan to the north of Panjshir had been reclaimed. While the forces involved in the resistance group were not immediately clear, the incident marked the first significant armed rebuke of the Taliban's swift dominance of Kabul.

Ghani Andarabi, a former local police commander, said the Banu district in Baghlan was under the control of local militia forces and said there had been heavy casualties "to the Taliban," according to Tolo News.

With the support of God and the mujahideen, three districts were liberated, we are now moving toward Khinjan district and will clear Baghlan province soon," Assadullah, Banu's former police chief, said.

Sources said the retaliation began after the Taliban entered Baghlan and engaged in house-to-house searches, according to the local Afghan news outlet.

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Originally posted by Krazeehorse:
Are they incompetent boss or are they traitors?

Yes

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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Originally posted by OttoSig:
Where are the thousands of Afghans being taken to?

My guess is: graves.

flashguy

No No, the ones we are supposed to ferry. Ferry to where?

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Originally posted by sdy:
https://news.yahoo.com/armed-a...ricts-235500097.html

Armed Afghan resistance forces wrested control of three districts from the Taliban, marking the first successful uprising against the group in Afghanistan since it seized control of the capital city of Kabul on Sunday.

Defense Minister Gen. Bismillah Mohammadi, who has sworn to resist the Taliban, tweeted Friday that the districts of Deh Salah, Banu, and Pul-e-Hesar in the neighboring province of Baghlan to the north of Panjshir had been reclaimed. While the forces involved in the resistance group were not immediately clear, the incident marked the first significant armed rebuke of the Taliban's swift dominance of Kabul.

Ghani Andarabi, a former local police commander, said the Banu district in Baghlan was under the control of local militia forces and said there had been heavy casualties "to the Taliban," according to Tolo News.

With the support of God and the mujahideen, three districts were liberated, we are now moving toward Khinjan district and will clear Baghlan province soon," Assadullah, Banu's former police chief, said.

Sources said the retaliation began after the Taliban entered Baghlan and engaged in house-to-house searches, according to the local Afghan news outlet.

Good. Drop them some supplies. A good old civil war will have its uses in our world.

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Originally posted by OttoSig:
Where are the thousands of Afghans being taken to?

New Jersey apparently.

And as far as our current military, this is precisely the result of one presidency. Barack Hussein Obama. That man single handedly devastated our military.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...liban-he-ignored-it/

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted reading an internal cable from about two dozen diplomats warning of the potential swift Taliban takeover of Afghanistan as U.S. troops were pulling out in mid-July, about a month before the jihadi group forced the collapse of the country’s government and military Sunday.

The group of U.S. diplomats reportedly sent the confidential cable, signed on July 13, through a so-called dissent channel and offered recommendations on ways to deal with the situation and accelerate an evacuation.

CNN learned from two unnamed State Department officials that “the diplomats decided to send the dissent memo because they felt previous warnings and recommendations they had made were being ignored and labeled alarmist.”

Blinken admitted reading the internal cable cautioning Kabul could fall when he and Gen. Mike Milley, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, were briefing lawmakers Friday about the post-Taliban takeover chaos engulfing the country.

In response to Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) asking, “when he read the dissent cable that said the Taliban would take over Afghanistan quicker, Blinken said he read it in mid-July,”

Nevertheless, even after reading the cable, the secretary continued to assure the public that the fall of Afghanistan after the full departure of U.S.-led NATO troops expected to be completed by the end of August was a far-fetched notion. The U.S. military’s withdrawal was moving ahead of schedule as the Taliban carried out an aggressive offensive to seize territory from the Afghan government, with more than 90 percent of it completed by the time the jihadis entered Kabul and declared victory.

Blinken’s optimistic assessments about the potential outcome of the withdrawal proved to be consistently wrong

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biden has assembled the most incompetent administration in modern times

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by OttoSig:
Where are the thousands of Afghans being taken to?

New Jersey apparently.

And as far as our current military, this is precisely the result of one presidency. Barack Hussein Obama. That man single handedly devastated our military.

Beat me to it. That man completely gutted our military and fired all the top brass that didn’t fall in lock-step with his vision. This is a continuation of his legacy. There was only so much Trump could do in four years to clean that up.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:


Beat me to it. That man completely gutted our military and fired all the top brass that didn’t fall in lock-step with his vision.

Where did all these clowns come from? I remember the big stink a year or more back over the West Point grad(?) sporting his commie tee-shirt under his graduation gown (?). But we apparently have a military that was full of these people anyway, is that right?!

Did they travel in secret towards the capital? A few of our planes or drones couldn't have taken the convoy out? Problem would have been solved. I just don't get it...

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I'm not saying no one in the Biden administration knows what's going on; quite the opposite, but old Droolin' Joe? I think Newt may be right. Biden is being handled like a toddler, and probably now knows about as much about the world as a toddler.

%100 agree. Biden is a political animal, committed to winning and retaining power at all costs, and like most political animals, really has no clue about the world or reality or how anything outside of D.C. and politics really work. He knows how to talk in front of a camera and mic, use political double talk speak, and make animatronic motions while shuffling papers on a lectern...and he knows corruption and how to extort power and money.

His declining mental abilities have been plainly displayed for a few years now, but what really clued me in to how his declining mental abilities affected this current crisis was when it was learned he failed to communicate or coordinate with our NATO allies and Afghan partners.

The Left's fixation on globalization, open borders, "we are the world"...President Obama going on his world apology I-can-bow-lower-than-you boot licking tour, is one of the pillars of their ideology...and yet, when it came time to communicate and coordinate with our NATO and Afghan partners on a matter of crucial global importance, Biden completely neglected this basic necessity and courtesy.

The only explanation I can come up with is the one Newt Gingrich, you, and many others have come to...Biden's hubris and declining mental capacity.

I'm convinced that he lacks both the ability to process information or to retain information shared with him, and that he simply doesn't recall what he's been briefed on, forgets what he has told others, and can't remember what agreements he has made...and 40 + years as a political animal has ingrained his arrogance to insulate himself from basic self analysis.

If ever there was a case for impeachment and the 25th amendment in U.S. history, it is now. Our allies deserve this. The American people deserve this.

Trump - we're tired of the woke Generals

Another clip:

"The greatest strategic humiliation"

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Originally posted by sdy:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/po...in-afghan-evacuation

US considers ordering commercial airlines to help in Afghan evacuation

I caught an interview with a reporter who was talking about interviewing someone in the Biden administration, I've seen so many interviews that I forget who, but I think it was either SoS Blinken or one of the top Pentagon figures, and she asked about the logistics of the evacuation. When the discussion turned towards avgas, the official got flustered and apparently gave some generic bullet-point answer about how any resources needed would be provided, but when she pointed out the fact that with this many flights carrying people in/out of the airport, there was a finite amount of avgas and no real resources to fly more in, he danced around the subject, until she asked if the Taliban had taken over the avgas at the airport and the Biden administration was now buying it from them...and the official made more generic double talk.

Obviously this won't affect commercial flights flying evacuees out of U.S. bases in other countries, but IF the Taliban does control the avgas supply in Kabul, that could be a real problem.

An update on the types and approximate quantities of U.S. supplied aircraft captured by the Taliban. Apparently the Afghan Air Force was able to fly a small number to neighboring friendly countries, and avoided capture, although one was lost in a mid-air collision with a MIG-29.

If you can believe the Pentagon brass, the claim is that there was no real sensitive high tech on board these aircraft, although I would still like to know what specific technologies these aircraft were equipped with.
@ 9 minute video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shKPybXtRDI

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Originally posted by Ripley:
Where did all these clowns come from? I remember the big stink a year or more back over the West Point grad(?) sporting his commie tee-shirt under his graduation gown (?). But we apparently have a military that was full of these people anyway, is that right?!

They've been attempting to emulate corporate American, keeping up with the Jones'. FOGOs see themselves as executives, just like corporate execs; they're disconnected and eschew any emotional attachment let alone investment in their work. Like their corporate counterparts, their opinions blow with the wind, lacking any backbone or, conviction to stand on any principal. There's the rare occasion that you do get one that is regimented in their MO unfortunately, most of them are such egotistical donkey's their missteps usually catch-up to them at some point. We've already heard rumored reports of the 82nd Airborne CG complaining to UK's top SOF unit, 'stop rescuing people, it's making us look bad'; you can't make this shit-up a 2-star is having a fit because he's unable to take up any initiative. At this point, any action taken by the military (or, anybody else for that matter) to rescue Americans' would have the immediate backing of Congress and the American people.

Spend time around the DC Swamp and the stench of smug, condescension is overwhelming; be wary of the person that enjoys Foggy Bottom.

flashback to Aug 2008 :

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/0...politics/24veep.html

Senator Barack Obama introduced Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. as his running mate

In Mr. Biden, Mr. Obama selected a six-term senator from Delaware best known for his expertise on foreign affairs

“I can tell you that Joe Biden gets it,” said Mr. Obama, of Illinois. “He’s that unique public servant who is at home in a bar in Cedar Rapids and the corridors of the Capitol; in the V.F.W. hall in Concord, and at the center of an international crisis.

https://hotair.com/headlines/2...n-evacuation-n410641

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the Civil Reserve Air Fleet to activate, requesting 18 aircraft from the U.S. airlines to help in the evacuation of Afghans and Americans.

The airlines impacted include American Airlines, Atlas Air, Delta Air Lines, and Omni Air. Hawaiian Airlines is requested to provide two aircraft and United Airlines is requested to provide four.

Those aircraft will not go into Kabul. Military aircraft will continue to airlift passengers out of Kabul, the commercial airlines will take the second leg, picking up passengers from staging bases in the Middle East and flying them to the U.S. or other temporary housing locations, such as Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

Late Friday night, U.S. Transportation Command issued a warning order to commercial carriers that they might be activated to help through the Civil Reserve Air Fleet to put those carriers under order to assist with the airlift.

https://www.defenseone.com/thr...more-quickly/184736/

It's only the third time in history that the U.S. airlines have been mobilized by the military.

Austin’s order calls for American Airlines, Atlas Air, and Delta Air Lines to provide three aircraft, the Pentagon said in an emailed statement on Sunday morning. Omni Air and Hawaiian Airlines must each provide two aircraft. United Airlines will provide four planes.

Germany said the U.S. could ferry evacuees through Ramstein Air Base—another facility already used by the U.S. military—as a stop on the way back to the United States. The Air Force posted pictures on its Facebook page showing Ramstein being readied for Afghan refugees. The Pentagon said Friday that it was preparing to house 22,000 Afghans at three U.S. Army bases in the United States.