Posted on 08/26/2021 7:59:06 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Retiring General Scott Miller is to blame for the bungled US exit from Afghanistan, a military expert who predicted the fall of the nation's capital months ago has claimed.
Bill Roggio, a senior fellow at think tank the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, slammed military leadership, telling DailyMail.com he tried to warn the Pentagon of the swift advance of the Taliban towards Kabul in the weeks before they took the city but was 'ignored'.
Roggio said President Joe Biden insisted on a reduced force of just 700 troops to both keep the US embassy in Kabul open and secure an airport to evacuate the rest of the 3,500 US soldiers, thousands of other Americans and Afghan allies.
As the US commander on the ground and facing the tight constraint, Miller chose Hamid Karzai International Airport in the middle of Kabul for the evacuation, telling US forces to abandon the nearby military airbase of Bagram outside the city.
Miller left Afghanistan in July and is due to retire from the military.
But his fateful decision came back to bite him when the Taliban swarmed into the capital within days, surrounding the airport and frustrating the evacuation of both Americans and allied Afghans, leaving many stranded and at risk of attack….
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Democrats deserve all the blame. They’re not incompetent, they’re the enemy.
Joe is to blame. Pure and simple.
Did he make the call? I doubt it. Obozo or some of his old staff did.
About 5 levels in the ‘5gong need to be purged.
“Retiring General Scott Miller is to blame”
What luck! a retiring general to pin this on.
I thought the buck stopped with Joe Biden?
LOL
No. All the blood is on BidenHarris Cabinet Joint Chiefs. Utter catastrophe.
“Miller left Afghanistan in July and is due to retire from the military.”
Court-martial him before he leaves and take away his pension.
And just who put these generals in their positions?
He shoulda resigned ilo going along with the CCP’s Hunter control of “The BIG Guy”.
Bill Roggio: His articles have been published in The New York Times, The Weekly Standard, The Daily Beast, National Review, and The New York Post, and his work has been in outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, CNN, Foreign Policy.
Carrying Joek’s water? Pointing the blame at the guy who is already out the door?
Biden is to blame - he insisted on only 700 troops
earlier it was reported as Milley saying we didn’t need Bagram
Nope Biden’s fault.
He ignored the Pentagon’s plan. This is because it was the President’s Trump plan.
Biden, Milley, the Secretary of Defense, and other top brass that pushed for this disastrous plan should all resign.
Oh and sorry no retirement.
May they both feel guilt and shame forever
CornPop could answer what 2+2 equals.
But, one by one the pieces of this will drop. Lots of finger pointing and blame.
How about try him for dereliction of duty
Gonna be a lot of finger pointing.
You know...criminals being criminals and all that.
Biden and his cabal should be brought up on charges.
The whole cabal.
THIS...all because that GD coward Roberts would not accept the TX and enjoining states case against those states who defied the equal protection clause of the US Constitution.
Miller? What a con job. This was a stretigic decision not a tactical one. He was an operational commander. Blaming him is a sham.
Couldn’t answer…..
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