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Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby on Afghan leaders: "What has been disconcerting to see is that there hasn't been that will, that political leadership, that military leadership and the ability to push back."
The Hill on Twitter ^ | August 14, 2021 | The Hill

Posted on 08/15/2021 9:57:54 AM PDT by White Lives Matter

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To: White Lives Matter

When the going gets rough, Afghan War Lords get going!


41 posted on 08/15/2021 10:33:05 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: White Lives Matter

This whole thing is the culmination of 20 years of very bad ideas and policies. The only good news is that Biden will get the blame. The world is on fire, and Biden is a weird old man screaming about getting his butt wiped and wandering off into the yard at the White House.


42 posted on 08/15/2021 10:33:31 AM PDT by cdcdawg (#clotshots)
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To: White Lives Matter

What the hell is he talking about?

Is he admitting they screwed up or is he commenting on the previous administration?


43 posted on 08/15/2021 10:34:19 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: White Lives Matter

Oh, afgan leadership.

What did they expect? George Patton and Winston Churchill?


44 posted on 08/15/2021 10:35:57 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: White Lives Matter

Not just Milley, what about our vaunted Intelligence Community, who missed 9/11, missed the rise of ISIS, missed Benghazi, missed the ANA completely falling apart and now the Taliban rolling over the country in a blitzkrieg the Nazis would be proud of...


45 posted on 08/15/2021 10:37:32 AM PDT by srmanuel (`)
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To: FirstFlaBn

Actually, the Yankees are in Chicago today.


46 posted on 08/15/2021 10:38:10 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: cgbg

It is the liberals and losers way don’t you know?

Deflect, deny, blame others.

They will never ever be man enough to stand up and say: “I did it. I screwed up.”

Meanwhile they keep looking for their lost balls and marbles.


47 posted on 08/15/2021 10:38:28 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: White Lives Matter

Yah, well ..... there’s none HERE, neither !


48 posted on 08/15/2021 10:39:49 AM PDT by knarf (qa)
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To: White Lives Matter

“We are not withdrawing, we are staying, the embassy is staying, our programs are staying … If there is a significant deterioration in security … I don’t think it’s going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.”

-Baghdad Blinken, July 7.


49 posted on 08/15/2021 10:41:27 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in Australia, China, Cuba, Canada, the UK, or Chicago! I'd move there! )
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To: Rebelbase

When has an Afghan National Army or Kingdom Army not fled in the face of tribal jihad?


Now on eBay...”Big Sale!!! Afghan Army rifles!! Brand new!! Never fired, only dropped once!!...Hurry, sale ends soon!!!”


50 posted on 08/15/2021 10:44:24 AM PDT by AFret.
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To: White Lives Matter

They couldn’t possibly have expected a different outcome than what is happening. This has all the earmarks of another planned crisis. The only question is what the Left is trying to accomplish.


51 posted on 08/15/2021 10:45:39 AM PDT by robel
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To: srmanuel
> what about our vaunted Intelligence Community <

When you think about it, some guy with a Magic 8-Ball would have gotten more things right.


52 posted on 08/15/2021 10:50:39 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Grampa Dave
 
 
That's Downfall parody material right there.
 
 
"Steiner...."
 
 

53 posted on 08/15/2021 10:53:03 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: White Lives Matter

So, how long before Milley, all the Joint Chiefs, and Austin resign in disgrace?


54 posted on 08/15/2021 11:00:00 AM PDT by azsportsterman
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To: White Lives Matter

“What has been disconcerting to see is that there hasn’t been that will, that political leadership, that military leadership and the ability to push back.”

He has the balls to say that when we sneaked away from the Afghan army at Bagram in the middle of the night. They woke up and found us gone and also that we had cut off the electricity.
What do you think that does for their will to fight?


55 posted on 08/15/2021 11:06:45 AM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

Lizzie gave blame to Biden and followed with Trump & Pompeo must bear responsibility for this, too. I despise that b*tch to no end. She somehow neglected to mention 8 years of Obama and the previous 8 years of her father & Bush. Must’ve slipped her RINO mind.


56 posted on 08/15/2021 11:07:42 AM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 )
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To: White Lives Matter

May not have it entirely right, BUT...

In my opinion, the anti-American Biden puppet is taking it’s orders from Obama, VJ, Clinton/Brennan types, and an axis of top IC black-hats (who act as the rudder to our DoD), who are actually calling all the anti-American “white hut” shots, and likely taking and making orders in behalf of Beijing and Moscow, who intend to control the world through “Belt & Road” initiative, and Moscow/Beijing controlled energy infrastructure and energy lines, and in time - finance.

Afghanistan is a mere tiny piece of this puzzle, with its large scale poppy drug production, abundance of *rare earths, uranium, and precious metals, and its geographic position within the Beijing/Moscow “Belt & Road” framework.

S with Vietnam, under left wing control, DOD is just cannon fodder.


57 posted on 08/15/2021 11:08:40 AM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: cdcdawg

Not according to Liz Cheney, she gave Biden some blame but added that Trump and Pompeo bear responsibility for this, too. She’s such a good little RINO putting the liberal talking points out there.


58 posted on 08/15/2021 11:10:21 AM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 )
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To: robel

To blame Trump....of course.


59 posted on 08/15/2021 11:11:46 AM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 )
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To: White Lives Matter

Lacking the will to push back.

So he is saying just like Republicans.


60 posted on 08/15/2021 11:12:41 AM PDT by NoLibZone (In 2 yrs only living will be conservative Christians Liberal vaxed sheep will be dead.Trust G's plan)
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