Comments on: Whose decision was the precipitous and disastrous nature of our Afghan withdrawal? https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/18/whose-decision-was-the-precipitous-and-disastrous-nature-of-our-afghan-withdrawal/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:25:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Cappy https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/18/whose-decision-was-the-precipitous-and-disastrous-nature-of-our-afghan-withdrawal/#comment-2572030 Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:25:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109557#comment-2572030 And now this vital message from the President of the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5y6C-v5-j0

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/18/whose-decision-was-the-precipitous-and-disastrous-nature-of-our-afghan-withdrawal/#comment-2571769 Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:14:15 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109557#comment-2571769 Telemachus:

The State stable dwellers aren’t as majestic or as useful though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhC-Sb5shlU

]]> By: Telemachus https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/18/whose-decision-was-the-precipitous-and-disastrous-nature-of-our-afghan-withdrawal/#comment-2571724 Thu, 19 Aug 2021 10:25:54 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109557#comment-2571724 Neo wrote: “As many have suggested, one thing we are seeing here is the overwhelming incompetence of the so-called “elites” – that is, the people in charge of these things, be it the military or the State Department. It may not be all the people in those agencies, of course. Some people may be objecting, but if so they are apparently being overruled by others.”

It’s not all of the people, at least at State, but they ARE being overruled, that I can assure you. The top tiers at State are not incompetent, they true believers who just “know” that they are better than you and those handful of people at State who are objecting. The Anthony Blinkins and Wendy Shermans are not/not outliers at State – they are the main body of the Senior Foreign Service.

State can never be fine-tuned into a better organization to serve America’s foreign policy goals. It must be gutted, cleaned out like the filthy Augean Stables that it truly is.

]]> By: Matthew M https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/18/whose-decision-was-the-precipitous-and-disastrous-nature-of-our-afghan-withdrawal/#comment-2571718 Thu, 19 Aug 2021 09:58:17 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109557#comment-2571718 Fool is bad
Knave is worse
Can we derive the answer
From the size of their purse?

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/18/whose-decision-was-the-precipitous-and-disastrous-nature-of-our-afghan-withdrawal/#comment-2571703 Thu, 19 Aug 2021 07:05:19 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109557#comment-2571703 “Remember these characters?”

Holy moley…

What a treasure trove of devastatingly poor judgment…

(But then I have to keep reminding myself that Dershowitz voted for “Biden” too…)

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/18/whose-decision-was-the-precipitous-and-disastrous-nature-of-our-afghan-withdrawal/#comment-2571700 Thu, 19 Aug 2021 06:53:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109557#comment-2571700 “It was a Trump program after all.”

Yes, it was. And therefore no damn good for “he” who will NOT be blamed…

(Good thing the Taliban aren’t trying to get across the southern border…although no doubt some of their compatriots have already tried to get across, with more on the way….)

Moreover, it is reported that Trump’s position while negotiating with the Taliban was that IF they didn’t abide by any treaty they might sign (which is not really an “IF” but a “WHEN”—though the chances they would sign anything were pretty small one might think), then he would make them regret it. Massively.

(But then I guess threatening the Taliban is Islamophobia…or something…and heaven forfend that “Biden” get blamed for THAT!—the “Squad” would have a conniption fit and be reduced (elevated?) to hysterics, making up accusations and FACTS with entertaining abandon…)

]]> By: Bryan Lovely https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/18/whose-decision-was-the-precipitous-and-disastrous-nature-of-our-afghan-withdrawal/#comment-2571686 Thu, 19 Aug 2021 05:27:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109557#comment-2571686 How convenient.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/18/whose-decision-was-the-precipitous-and-disastrous-nature-of-our-afghan-withdrawal/#comment-2571676 Thu, 19 Aug 2021 04:43:33 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109557#comment-2571676 Well, they have found the fella, Gen. Austin “Scott” Miller, who made the Bagram call and he left the military a couple weeks after abandoning the base without telling the Afghans and allowing the base to be looted.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2021/08/18/the-general-who-recommended-abandoning-bagram-air-base-has-already-left-afghanistan-hm-n1470790

That’s knowing when to leave the party.

Apres moi, le deluge!

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/18/whose-decision-was-the-precipitous-and-disastrous-nature-of-our-afghan-withdrawal/#comment-2571673 Thu, 19 Aug 2021 04:26:06 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109557#comment-2571673 Is this the fault of the Pentagon, not Biden, too? It was a Trump program after all.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/08/18/bombshell-joe-biden-disbanded-state-department-crisis-response-bureau-prior-to-taliban-takeover-n429147

Wouldn’t want the bad optics of the Tripoli Annex to happen again. After all, an attack on an embassy and having some planning in place, for those things called contingencies would be messy. Rapid responses might have consequences. Just let it be known that the US won’t respond at all?

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/18/whose-decision-was-the-precipitous-and-disastrous-nature-of-our-afghan-withdrawal/#comment-2571630 Thu, 19 Aug 2021 02:24:28 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109557#comment-2571630 huxley:

I have been thinking about Dunkirk lately, as well.

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