General Austin Scott Miller, the United States' top general in Afghanistan, speaks to journalists at the Resolute Support headquarters, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday. AP
France 24: US commmander warns Taliban to stop Afghan offensive or face air strikes
The top US commander in Afghanistan Tuesday did not rule out conducting air strikes against the Taliban if they pressed on with their campaign of capturing new territory across the violence-wracked country.
Fighting has surged across the rugged countryside since early May when the US military began its final withdrawal of troops, with the Taliban claiming to have recently captured more than 100 of the over 400 districts across Afghanistan.
"What I like to see is no air strikes, but to get to no air strikes, you stop all violence," General Scott Miller told reporters in Kabul on Tuesday, according to video footage obtained by AFP from US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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WNU Editor: The Taliban now have the momentum to seize much of the country in the coming months .... Taliban doubles number of controlled Afghan districts since May 1 (Long War Journal). They are not going to listen to a US General that will be out of the country in the next two months.
The statement is ludicrous. The US could launch strike and kill 300 to 1,000 Taliban at this point and the result will be the same. At least General Miller is not in the same league as the puerile General Milley.
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"Milley has spent his career telling politicians what they want to hear because it was good for his career. His endorsement of the divisive racism of critical race theory shows that there are no limits to what he will support as long as it’s good for his career. But this time the cost may not just be thousands of dead Americans abroad, but a defenseless nation at home."
That is the essays last paragraph. I believe every bit of it. Milley is more dangerous than Putin to the United States. General Miller was put in a tough spot and handed a bag of excrement and felt he had to say something as he really cannot do anything.
If a carrier super F/A 18 ikr F35 crashes will we bomb the wreckage or will we pull a Bill Clinton and allow the Taliban to sell it to the Chinese like the Serbs sold the downed F117 Nighthawk on the 1990s and saved them 5 years of development time?
Exactly ,at the peak they shrugged it off, why would they care now lol
ReplyDelete10:37 and 5:10 are money quotes.
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