Posted on 03/29/2023 3:35:56 PM PDT by thegagline
Banks: You don’t have any regrets. Secretary Austin — that’s very telling — Secretary Austin, has there ever been any accountability for anyone within the Department of Defense for the deadly, botched, and embarrassing withdrawal from Afghanistan? Any accountability?
Austin: Hey, listen, our troops evacuated 124,000 people off that airfield, and —
Banks: Has anyone been held accountable? If a Navy captain grounded a ship, what happens immediately?
Austin: Typically, that captain is removed.
Banks: That captain is removed. Has anyone been held accountable for what happened in Afghanistan?
Austin: To my knowledge, no.
Was Austin given his promotion based on sexual kink, color, or connected ‘daddy’? Cause it sure as hell wasn’t ‘merit’...
Lest we forget.....
Of course.
Why would an anti-American globalist 0bamanite scumbag like Idi Amin Junior Austin have any regret over abandoning Americans and allies behind enemy lines, and leaving an avowed enemy tens of billions of dollars of arms and cash?
Austin is just another incompetent member of the Biden Freak Show.
Phillipines Marines..
They wear a version of the USMC dress blues with different rank insignia.
I know some folks that served under Austin with the 10th Mountain before I got to Drum. They all said he was an absolute stand up Officer who looked out for his Soldiers. Not sure what happened to him.
The demonrats are traitors to our constitutional republic, you can take that to the bank!
Yes.
Yet another ‘equity’ hire on display. Impeach him immediately.
Maybe the absolutely stupidest part of our Afghanistan disaster:
Abandoning Bagram AFB in the dark of night, with no notice to the ANA, so that we now have no way to stage and fly tactical missions into and out of A-stan, other than from Kabul Int’l Airport (now jammed full of evacuees and civilian refugees.)
If we still had Bagram, we could use it to handle tactical fighters and troop transports, enough to keep the Taliban at bay until we evacuated Kabul. Taking off, reloading and landing at Bagram.
Instead of hours and hours away. Without Bagram AFB, we are reduced to flying tactical missions from very long range. This gives the Taliban an immense OODA loop advantage. The Taliban now has local air assets (ex Russian Hips, ex U.S. Blackhawks), artillery up to 155mm howitzers, etc. This means they can move troops and artillery around much faster than we can respond with air missions from approx. 1,000 miles away.
Now, the Taliban can shut down Kabul Intl’ anytime they choose, using local forces under their control. We are 100% at their mercy. A total debacle. Every general involved should be busted to private and then fired without a pension.
Or shot.
Joe Biden Blames Donald Trump for Afghanistan Collapse — Despite Calling Taliban Takeover ‘Unlikely’ in July
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3985126/posts
Soulless fools with no conscience never have regrets.
Pompeo Reveals What Trump Said to the Taliban During Afghanistan Withdrawal Negotiations
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3985148/posts
Biden sends 5,000 troops to Afghanistan, BLAMES Trump for Taliban resurgence
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3985163/posts
Joe Biden ordered Bagram Air Base to be shut down before they evacuated from Kabul. Not much the Generals could do about that.
The U.S. Embassy In Kabul Tells Americans To Shelter In Place And Not To Come To The Embassy Or Airport Amid Reports Of The Airport Taking Fire
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3985224/posts
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