Posted on 08/26/2021 12:22:12 PM PDT by KeyLargo
The Woke Marine General is on TV now ,trying to Defend his CIC Biden.
“Bill Roggio, a former soldier and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, demanded the resignation of the Centcom Commander U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Frank McKenzie, who heads the Afghan mission.”
Closing Bagram airbase was a 'recipe for disaster': Army veteran turned terrorism analyst calls for CENTCOM commander to be fired for 'dumpster fire' plan to choose Kabul airport to evacuate thousands of people
* Security experts said Bagram air base would have provided a secure hub * But it was closed in early July when U.S. forces slipped out at night * Americans must instead try to reach Kabul's airport which is ringed by Taliban * The result has been chaotic scenes at Hamid Karzai International Airport * And growing questions about the Biden's administration's emergency plan * Bill Roggio said 'you do not put your primary evacuation airstrip at an airport inside a city with 4.5 million people' * Rep. Mike Waltz said Bagram had more space for keeping people safe * But Gen. Mark Milley said his orders were to secure the embassy and he did not have enough troops to hold Bagram
Abandoning Bagram air base before withdrawing American civilians and Afghan allies was a major tactical mistake, according to senior national security experts, leaving U.S. forces reliant on a civilian airport, with a single runway in the heart of a city controlled by the Taliban. They said days of chaos could have been avoided if the U.S. evacuation plan included Bagram, 25 miles to the north.
nstead, the world was horrified to watch Afghans dropping from the sky off departing planes while Americans were being told to hunker down at home, and Taliban fighters encircled Hamid Karzai International Airport.
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Wasn’t this handed off to McKenzie in June ? Need to
Research this
This was by design. Change my mind.
” Centcom Commander U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Frank McKenzie”
Fox News shows his name as being Gen Kenneth McKenzie Jr.
Fear Not folks- the state department just announced they are ‘going to investigate’ what happened- and ‘look for who did the bombing’- and after several months investigations, we will get a report that it was the taliban that did it-
What happens if they take Americans as hostages and make demands of Biden?
U.S. Troops snuck out in the middle of the night, and the Afghan Army commander at Bagram didn't know the Americans left until the generators died and there was no electricity.
BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said.
Ask Joseph Hooker about pulling back from “the high ground”. At Chancellorsville in May 1863 he did just that, retiring his larger army from commanding ground between Chancellorsville and Salem Church to a more compact but less commanding position around the Chancellor House. Fortyeight hours later his army was on its heels retreating back across the Rhappahanock River having been outflanked and outgunned by a smaller Confederate Army.
Kabul is Chancellorsville on steroids and this time we are outnumbered at least 10 to 1.
I’ve never been to Afghanistan, but looking at Google earth, this armchair general surmises that the whole Kabul Valley would be relatively easy to control, by holding Bagram in the North and Kabul Airport in the South.
In fact, looking at the size and location of Bagram, by giving that up, the isolation and fall of Kabul was effectively guaranteed.
Never knew this. When did the USA sneak away before?
“What happens if they take Americans as hostages and make demands of Biden?”
IF?? LOL!
“...and he did not have enough troops to hold Bagram...”
Well you should have gotten them or thrown your stars on Austin’s desk!
General Thoroughly Modern Milley should have been arrested August 15th and shot that night.
That would be quicker than if the FBI were to do it.
It was planned. Chaos and carnage was the plan.
Where’s the voice of the UN and the NATO countries. This was a NATO mission. I’m sure our allies are as pi**** as we are.
That is happening now.
“ What happens if they take Americans as hostages and make demands of Biden?””
We’ll see. Now that Americans have been killed in a bombing, Biden’s next move should be interesting.
General Frank McKenzie, USMC, Commander, United States Central Command
Kenneth Franklin “Frank” McKenzie, Jr., was born in 1957 in Birmingham, Alabama. He was commissioned through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps at The Citadel. He earned a master’s degree in history from the National Defense University, and served as a senior military fellow at the school’s Institute for National Strategic Studies
Biden won’t tell you and the media won’t report it.
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