Marines assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit fly to Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 17
* Vasely said the Pentagon was being pulled in all different directions from Biden officials, lawmakers, members of the media and even the Vatican
* He called the requests a 'distraction' that created competition for 'already stressed resources'
* The Pentagon's standard priority had been to first evacuate American citizens, then lawful permanent residents, then Afghans who aided the U.S.
* Demands poured in at such a high volume that Vasely felt the need to take certain forces away from the established rescue plan
Rear Adm. Peter Vasely, the top U.S. commander in Kabul during the evacuation, said that the withdrawal was made more chaotic by people like First Lady Jill Biden, Pope Francis, the White House and Congress calling in for special favors to help get out certain people.
Vasely said the Pentagon was being pulled in all different directions from Biden officials, lawmakers, members of the media and even the Vatican as it carried out the largest evacuation since Vietnam ahead of the Taliban takeover. He called the requests a 'distraction' that created competition for 'already stressed resources.'
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Update #1: Top commander: Afghanistan evacuation hampered by appeals from White House officials, members of Congress (The Hill)
Update #2: ‘From the White House down,’ pleas for help disrupted Afghan evacuation, top U.S. commander says (The Washington Post)
WNU Editor: More proof on how out of touch the White House was before the collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban.
3 comments:
another way of saying everyone else responsible but not me
A FIRST lady outranks an admiral. Jill was well within her rights.
Here is what I don't understand. How is it that President Alzheimer did not put in a special request to recue Mohammed?
Never mind, the question answers itself.
"An Afghan interpreter who helped in the 2008 rescue of then-Sen. Joe Biden and two other senators from a valley in Afghanistan was among the thousands left behind as the commander-in-chief pulled US troops out of the embattled nation, leaving it in the hands of the Taliban."
We know what type of jobs 4:21 has had. Nothing involving multiple queues.
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