Pentagon officials “disgusted” at how many Afghan helpers will be left behind HotAir

In an uncharacteristic development for a Democratic White House, the Biden administration is starting to leak like a sieve. We re seeing an increasing number of officials in all branches of the government and the military going to reporters and speaking off-the-record about their dissatisfaction and anger at how the evacuation of Kabul is going. One of the biggest complaints concerns the number of Afghan translators and other helpers that will be left behind to face the Taliban, with almost certain death being the fate of many of them. NBC News has collected a number of these stories, describing a sense of fury and disgust among officials from the CIA, the Pentagon and even some Democrats in Congress. We re used to seeing American politics play out as a team sport, with each side sticking up for their own team and tearing down anyone on the opposite side. But Joe Biden seems to have accomplished what previously seemed impossible. He s fulfilled his campaign promise to bring the country together, but he probably didn t think they would be uniting in their anger over how he s handling the end of the war in Afghanistan.

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This is probably because the Blob has decided to make a last ditch effort to stay in Afghanistan in order to shore up their consulting fees, promotions, etc., etc. Yes, the surrender in Afghanistan is a fiasco but I give Biden credit or partial credit I should say for getting out and actually doing it rather than staying in there for another 20 years. It’s just terrible however that he did not lead the organizational effort to do it in a more creditable manner. Pretty obviously, though, he expected his underlings to take care of that and they didn’t, banking on their being able to get him to change his mind. But he did not.