We All Should Be Appalled By What Is Happening In Afghanistan
For all the fractiousness about Afghanistan over the past twenty years, finally there is unity in this opinion: What a disaster.
The situation in Kabul seems hellish. People are literally falling out of the wheel wells of C-130s, desperate to get out. The idea that a delay from the original timeline for departure would enable the U.S. and our allies to prepare looks ludicrous in hindsight, instead moving the exit into the fighting season and allowing the Taliban more time to prepare. And where is Joe Biden in all of this? On vacation, as is Jen Psaki. What a time for away messages.
In a responsible military situation, the entire brass would be out on their asses after a level of mismanagement this dire. The insulation from consequences is absurd. Whatever happened to resigning in failure? Nowadays people are only expected to resign in protest that is, for other people s mistakes, but never for their own. Is it time for a BRAC for generals?
Whoever Biden doesn t fire, their performance Biden believes is acceptable. If this is acceptable, how can the American people possibly trust the NSA, CIA, or the Pentagon? Even their most recent predictions were completely off. Once again, the intel community and expert class totally failed us, predicting this would take months and the Afghan army would fight now they re revising their predictions on terrorist formation according to Milley today.
Why should we believe anything they say?
I would be more appalled if I were even slightly, the least bit surprised. Actually, I heard this morning that the reason so many ASF (not-) fighters deserted their posts is that they had been paid off by the Taliban to leave, which was thoughtful in a way, I suppose. Sort of a mostly bloodless transaction. Most of the money probably came from us and the opium trade.