My latest in PJ Media:
The U.S. military has been justly criticized over the last few days for paying more attention to imposing Critical Race Theory and other elements of woke orthodoxy upon our armed forces than to ensuring that those forces could do what they’re supposed to do, which is win wars and defend the United States. Maybe it would have been wise to spend some time formulating an effective way to withdraw our personnel and materiel from Afghanistan safely. But back on June 11, the commander of CENTCOM, Marine Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., gave an interview to Military Times, claiming that the military had done just that.
The Military Times interviewer, Howard Altman, asked McKenzie a question that turned out to have far greater significance than it seemed to have at the time: “Have you provided options yet to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on securing the embassy in Afghanistan and providing counterterrorism support from outside the country once the withdrawal is complete? If so, can you share what some of those plans and troop levels might look like?”
McKenzie gave the definite impression that such plans were being formulated: “So, I have been in consultation with the secretary, through [Army Gen. Mark Milley, the notoriously woke chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] on providing those plans, and the secretary is still chewing over it. We’re in a back-and-forth process, refining them, so unfortunately right now, because of that, there’s not much more I can share with you about the development of those plans.”
But they were being developed. McKenzie emphasized: “Howard, we have contingencies for everything.” Altman asked him: “Have you presented plans to SECDEF for evacuating interpreters from Afghanistan if so tasked? Can you share those plans, and what is your message for those folks who are waiting?”
McKenzie answered: “So, we have workable plans to evacuate any scale of people that we would be directed to do. That’s one of the things that we have done. I’ve talked to the secretary about it. You know, the actual decision about who’s going to come out, whether they would come out and how that would work, is not the Department of Defense’s decision, that’s a Department of State decision and ultimately a level above the Department of State. I can tell you this. The Department of Defense is prepared to undertake any tasks that we would be required to do in coordination with a presidential decision.”
There is more. Read the rest here.
CogitoErgoSum says
Putting all those troops around the U.S. Capitol and then having nothing happen lulled them into complacency. If they scared off those white supremacists with 25,000 soldiers, then they could do the same to the Taliban with one tenth of the troops ….. and blindfolded … with their hands tied behind their back.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
It’s a very good idea in invest time and energy in developing and coming up with effective plan to evacuate Afghanistan the Americans and the non-jihadist Muslim Afghans with glady worked with us for a better Afghanistan from that country which that evil and destructive man ,Joe Biden “given away ” the nation to the enemy, the Taliban.
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For it’s a complete waste of time and effort on that nonsensical politically correct junk as critical race theory.
In addition , by abandoning those 15000 Americans in Afghanistan and therefore leaving them in the malicious vicious vengeful heinous grip of Taliban ,Joe Biden had betrayed them. So treacherous villain ,Biden is a real traitor in every of the word.
That bogus US “President” Biden is a traitor to all the Americans he left stranded in Afghanistan.
Biden is also a traitor to all the American soldiers who had literally shed their blood, died and had been maimed for life in Afghanistan.
Likewise Biden is a traitor to all the families and friends of those US soldiers who had shed their blood , were killed and terribly maimed for life by the Taliban . For creepy traitorous old Joe just ‘gave away ” Afghanistan to the Taliban.
Biden is a traitor to the American taxpayer who paid nearly two trillion to end jihadist terrorist training camps in Afghanistan forever in Afghanistan . For since Biden “handed’” that country to the Taliban ,they will let the jihadists of al Qaeda and ISIS set up jihad training centers in that land.
Joe Biden should be arrested for treason…Biden is not a real American President ,he’s pseudo “president,” an impostor “president.”
gravenimage says
Sadly, this was always a fool’s errand. No one could civilize 100% Islamic Afghanistan.
gregbeetham says
Al Fadi and Usama Dakdok discussed that very fallacy this morning and the incomprehensible stupidity and ignorance of the West in general.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=433044601322955&ref=notif¬if_id=1629759740083711¬if_t=live_video_explicit
gravenimage says
That link doesn’t work for me, Greg, but thanks.
gregbeetham says
Hmm Facebook automatically gets the latest Al Fadi YouTube videos and adds them to my watch list (no adverts) and I get a notification that a new video has arrived, maybe I need to friend you on Facebook and send it to you via PM.
(I clicked the link as it is on Jihad Watch and it worked for me.)
I’ve got a large list of informative Al Fadi videos, regrettably a lot of them include Sam Shamoun who I find judgemental and aggressive, not always mind, but sometimes he is a tad OTT.
gravenimage says
CENTCOM Chief In June: U.S. Has ‘Workable Plans to Evacuate Any Scale of People That We Would Be Directed to Do’
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So was General McKenzie clueless and over confident, or has he been prevented from implimenting his plans? This is a key question.
GFF says
The very least, General, Sir, would have been to provide a nail and a hammer to each, whereby those on the ground could ‘spike the guns’, sir.
OLD GUY says
Makes no sense to not get the civilians out of Afghanistan before you pull our troops. I don’t understand how the military leaders didn’t know that the Afghan military would not fight. With that knowledge you certainly would not leave all those weapons and munitions behind for the Taliban to pick up. Incompetent at the military and political leadership level!
gravenimage says
+1