SEC AUSTIN: "We don't have the capability to go out and collect large numbers of people." pic.twitter.com/k4cZESUav2
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 18, 2021
National Review: No American Military Leader Should Ever Say What Lloyd Austin Said
There are an estimated 10,000–15,000 Americans in Afghanistan now who need to be evacuated as the Taliban seize control of the country. Anyone left behind could find themselves reliving the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis or the hostage crisis in Lebanon shortly thereafter. The Taliban are undoubtedly well aware of the leverage they could obtain by holding Americans hostage. Evacuation is therefore not just a pressing humanitarian matter; it is essential to preventing a bunch of Stone Age barbarians from dictating terms to the United States of America.
The Biden administration has not exactly exuded confidence in the face of this threat. On Tuesday, the State Department sent a cable to thousands of Americans in the country telling them to make their way to Kabul’s soon-to-be-renamed Hamid Karzai Airport (we already abandoned Bagram Airfield) but warning them, “Please Be Advised That The United States Cannot Guarantee Your Security As You Make This Trip.”
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WNU Editor: This has probably been one of the worst weeks for the U.S. military in a long time. Losing the Afghan war and the consequences from it is going to stain for all time every U.S. political and military leader who had a major role in that conflic, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin included.
4 comments:
Such a mess is closely monitored by China and Russia.
If our forces are "overwhelmed" by a "Non Combatant Operation"...what will happen with a real war? The good news is neither China nor Russia was ready for this US disaster and cannot take advantage of it.
Well, if this mess stay long the China and Russia surprise will fade.
Correct.
Russia and China became aware that the government was going to fall only 2 or 3 weeks ago.
Editor: I'm not sure the US "lost" the Afghan war, since it was not a declared war, nor were there clear objectives established in the first place. I suppose defeating the Taliban was one objective, but then it's difficult to define in clear terms what exactly the Taliban is or isn't. I would call it another nation-building failure.
it's difficult to define in clear terms what exactly the Taliban is or isn't.
not tru dat
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