Comments on: What sort of “incompetence” explains the decisions made by the US in the Afghanistan withdrawal? https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/19/what-sort-of-incompetence-explains-the-decisions-made-by-the-us-in-the-afghanistan-withdrawal/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 21 Aug 2021 05:49:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/19/what-sort-of-incompetence-explains-the-decisions-made-by-the-us-in-the-afghanistan-withdrawal/#comment-2572208 Sat, 21 Aug 2021 05:49:39 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109599#comment-2572208 @ Dick Illyes “Interesting article in Unherd”
https://unherd.com/2021/08/the-intellectual-who-lost-afghanistan/

A very good essay about Ghani – biographical, analytical, and drily witty.
Author Will Lloyd is skeptical about the stories of his escape by cash-loaded chopper, but I agree with this comment:

Samir Iker:
That story about the helicopter full of cash sounds really funny.
But I will only believe it is true if the NYT refuses to cover it, Twitter bans anyone who mentions it and Snopes publishes a report stating it was “mostly false”

]]> By: avi https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/19/what-sort-of-incompetence-explains-the-decisions-made-by-the-us-in-the-afghanistan-withdrawal/#comment-2572143 Fri, 20 Aug 2021 22:53:42 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109599#comment-2572143 “Exactly who in Richard Cheney’s family qualifies as a ‘chicken-hawk’?

is that a serious question?
and Cheney overrode everyone and disbanded the Iraqi Army
5000 dead Americans later , but he and his war profiteering friends did well.
and Bremer teaches skiing

]]> By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/19/what-sort-of-incompetence-explains-the-decisions-made-by-the-us-in-the-afghanistan-withdrawal/#comment-2572050 Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:37:32 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109599#comment-2572050 well he does have his tells, maybe hanging around turkey, in the 00s, but he had some interesting leads re the awan bros, the legend of the apollo plant, is old news,

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/19/what-sort-of-incompetence-explains-the-decisions-made-by-the-us-in-the-afghanistan-withdrawal/#comment-2572042 Fri, 20 Aug 2021 16:48:39 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109599#comment-2572042 Philip Giraldi is an insane anti Semite who belongs in a straitjacket.

I think ‘weird’ and ‘sinister’ are better descriptors for him. IIRC, he claims to be a CIA veteran. They can sure pick ’em.

]]> By: Hubert https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/19/what-sort-of-incompetence-explains-the-decisions-made-by-the-us-in-the-afghanistan-withdrawal/#comment-2572037 Fri, 20 Aug 2021 16:13:45 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109599#comment-2572037 Geoffrey Britain: “Putin is cag[e]y enough to realize though that assuming that we’re finished is at best premature. I expect him to get aggressive and bring the Ukraine under his ‘protection’.”

The Baltic states may be on that menu as well. Could be a replay of 1939-1940, only faster and more “kinetic” this time. Ironic, since Estonian intelligence played a crucial role in getting Russiagate started. Here’s former USN intelligence officer J.E. Dyer of Liberty Unyielding from January of this year:

“Also this week, the entire cabinet of Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas resigned due to a corruption scandal. The president of Estonia has asked the leader of the opposition party, Kaja Kallas, to put together a new government.

It is a peculiar coincidence that Estonian intelligence, alongside that of Italy and the Netherlands, figured with remarkable prominence in the allegations about Russia interfering in the U.S. election, and in particular that Trump and/or his team was involved, in 2016.

Ratas was not the prime minister at the time. He took office in November 2016 (months after the allegations from Estonia were reportedly forwarded to John Brennan). Then-president Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the close associate of George Soros, left office in December 2016, shortly after Ratas assumed office.”

Source: https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/01/16/trumps-end-of-term-another-dead-cat-bounce-in-the-operational-sequence-of-events/

]]> By: BrooklynBoy https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/19/what-sort-of-incompetence-explains-the-decisions-made-by-the-us-in-the-afghanistan-withdrawal/#comment-2572011 Fri, 20 Aug 2021 13:29:01 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109599#comment-2572011 Zaphod
Philip Giraldi is an insane anti Semite who belongs in a straitjacket.

]]> By: Dick Illyes https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/19/what-sort-of-incompetence-explains-the-decisions-made-by-the-us-in-the-afghanistan-withdrawal/#comment-2572005 Fri, 20 Aug 2021 13:12:01 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109599#comment-2572005 Interesting article in Unherd https://unherd.com/2021/08/the-intellectual-who-lost-afghanistan/

The Swamp wants endless war. A successful exit, even with a later Taliban takeover was not likely to provide it. They will try to turn this into a reason to go back in, it is hard to know how it will play out.

However, even though the Swamp thinks it is the USA it is not. The Boomer Democrat Party is running out of people. The Fit is hitting the Shan.

Back to an unlikely but interesting possibility: Biden leaves, Kamala is unable to get her choice for VP approved. GOP takes both Houses with huge majorities, Trump is elected Speaker, Kamala resigns or is impeached, Trump returns with Desantis as VP.

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/19/what-sort-of-incompetence-explains-the-decisions-made-by-the-us-in-the-afghanistan-withdrawal/#comment-2571964 Fri, 20 Aug 2021 06:14:34 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109599#comment-2571964 Since the current establishment is so hopeless, why not simply outsource it to guys who can Get Things Done?

https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israels-secret-arsenal-its-not-so-secret-anymore/

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/19/what-sort-of-incompetence-explains-the-decisions-made-by-the-us-in-the-afghanistan-withdrawal/#comment-2571959 Fri, 20 Aug 2021 05:24:19 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109599#comment-2571959 @GB:

I don’t think Xi wants Hawaii. He might have the complexion of a pineapple, but he doesn’t live on them. Pots of honey are more his thing.

If he wants anything else not called Alaska, why should you care?

Americans caring (whether out of cynicism or pure hearts depending whom) about fates other foreign peoples and then bitching about their inevitable ingratitude is on the same level as Hitler in the Bunker complaining that the Germans weren’t worthy of his greatness and efforts on their behalf. Yes. America is not Hitler. Still: Just. Stop.

Leave Winnie the Pooh alone long enough and he’ll have to move on Eastern Siberia. That’ll be one for the ages. Watch it on Netflix.

You’ll be too busy doing what I’m not allowed to discuss here to even notice anyway, by that point.

]]> By: Geoffrey Britain https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/19/what-sort-of-incompetence-explains-the-decisions-made-by-the-us-in-the-afghanistan-withdrawal/#comment-2571952 Fri, 20 Aug 2021 04:45:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109599#comment-2571952 Xi and Putin are now more convinced than ever that we are now a soft, rich target.

Putin is caggy enough to realize though that assuming that we’re finished is at best premature. I expect him to get aggressive and bring the Ukraine under his ‘protection’.

Xi however may have embraced the view that Hitler reportedly had of Americans in 1939. When the CCP takes Taiwan with no meaningful consequences, it will encourage Xi to envision further ‘adventures’.

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