wtroxell wrote:
I'm with Lara Logan on this.......
The US has unlimited resources.
The government is not collectively stupid.
This withdrawal plan and its result are by design and is the desired result.
Biden trashed the plans for withdrawal, there was no plan for this, no design, and certainly what we see is not a desired result.
On January 20, 2021, the Coward-in-Chief picked up a pen and a phone and began the process of eliminating, scrubbing, and trashing every one of president Trump's plans, agreements, deals, policies, and accomplishments. Obviously this included his 18 month plan for a staged strategic withdrawal from A-stan that would have gotten everyone and everything American out of there.
Biden is feckless, reckless, and stupid, he ignored his Pentagon and State dept officers who cautioned him about moving too quickly. "Just get it done", he told them.
The logistics involved in evacuating thousands of troops, civilians, contractors, friendly Afghanis and billions of dollars worth of military hardware and ordinance from A-stan is a massive undertaking. President Trump's plan had this covered.
However, when US CentCom received word to move, the Taliban made theirs, and the entire operation went straight to hell. Chaos reigned, people were killed.
Bagram Air Base was supposed to be the main staging base for evacuations and removal of hardware and equipment. The Taliban knew this so Bagram was first on their target list.
Tragically, whoever it was in Biden's circle of jerks that made the call to A-stan failed to inform the commanding officer of Bagram AB. He found out the hard way. The Taliban were already swarming into the base when he realized something had gone terribly wrong.
When Biden became aware - as aware as a demented old fool can be - that he had a major mess on his hands and that they needed to ramp up the evacuations, boots on the ground and State Department officials told him we did not have the resources to immediately evacuate such a massive number of people and equipment, and that it simply was not possible to send enough aircraft and pilots to A-stan.
Biden and his circle of jerks then came up with the brilliant idea of forcing those who wanted out of there to fill out and file an application for evac that would allow officials to vett them and either approve or refuse evac. As if the only remaining airport in A-stan was business as usual in which travelers must pass through customs.
The US DOES NOT have "unlimited resources" and Biden's admin is "collectively stupid".