When you’ve lost House Intel Chair Adam Schiff, you’ve lost well, everybody. Except Jennifer Rubin.
Biden has been claiming that he was misled by the intelligence into believing that everything was fine. We already knew that wasn’t true and the top Dem on the House Intelligence Committee has confirmed it.
“There was nothing that I or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days,” Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said last week.
Schiff, however, described the intelligence community’s assessments of the Afghan government’s ability to maintain itself as “increasingly pessimistic” in recent months.
There are more details.
Schiff also said, “Intelligence agencies’ assessments of the Afghan government’s ability to maintain itself became increasingly pessimistic over the course of the last six months.”
“There were any number of warnings that the Taliban might take over, and some that included a potential of a very rapid takeover,” Schiff said, but added no one predicted such a rapid collapse.
What exactly “very rapid” entails is open to debate, but suffice it to say the intel was there.
Did it make it up the ladder to Schiff, but not Biden? Quite possible. The guy in the Oval Office is often the captive of his advisers. And considering Biden’s mental capacity, it’s quite possible that he was never briefed on any intel that would discourage his disastrous course of action. But that’s on him and the Obama people he’s surrounded by. It’s on the people who were handling national security.
If Schiff had access to those briefings, Biden could have. And Milley should have been studying the intel instead of “white rage”.
Biden’s people picked and chose what intel they showed him. But it wasn’t a matter of they didn’t know, they chose not to know.
Terry Gain says
It doesn’t matter what information was provided by anyone to Biden. Obviously, it was insane to withdraw the troops first.
But Biden is not the only American president who screwed up the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Trump agreed to release 5000 Taliban from prison. I do not know how many of those people were released but that was the agreement he entered into in early 2020.
America is being very poorly served by its leaders and institutions. Mind you, in Canada we have budgets that balance themselves. Now that we have cut back on our energy production perhaps we can export the concept of budgets balancing. themselves. Trudeau also excels at costume wearing and dancing.
Politicallyincorrectistruth says
Trudeau has the mind of a teenage girl. He’s an expert at nail varnish.
gravenimage says
I was more serious as a teenage girl than Trudeau is now.
gravenimage says
All grimly true, Terry.
Walter Sieruk says
That President Pretender, Joe Biden just threw away and totally destroyed nearly twenty years of progress accomplished by the blood sweat and tears and even the deaths of many Americans as well as those blood, sweat and tears of America’s allies.
Also Biden threw away more than trillion of the American taxpayer’s money that was invested in for the betterment and development of Afghanistan.
This tragic scenario didn’t actually have to had happen in Afghanistan because the generals of the Pentagon who are strategic military advisers to the President strongly counseled Biden not to have a sharp, sudden withdrawal from Afghanistan but instead have and start a gradual drawback of the US armed forces after September 11, 2021.
The problem was that the arrogant conceited and stupid Joe Biden refused to heed or listen to the wise council of the intellects of the Pentagon. Therefore is this complete catastrophe with the Taliban total takeover of Afghanistan.
In the ancient but wisdom filled book by Sun Tzu entitled THE ART OF WAR, it is written “He will win who has the military capability and is not interfered with the sovereign.”
That awful incompetent and probably even treasonous villain, Joe Biden, ruined everything.
gravenimage says
It was never possible to civilize Afghanistan–but it was certainly possible to pull out without endangering American and other western civilians and leaving the Taliban billions of dollars of ordnance.
Walter Sieruk says
On the night Television program Sean Hannity 8/17/21 on Fox News ,the former United States President Donald Trump was interviewed by Hannity and Mr. Trump had spoken about this Biden withdraw from Afghanistan and Trump ,truthfully declared that “Nobody had ever handled a withdrawal worse than Joe Biden.”
He further stated that “This is the greatest embarrassment in the history of this country” and Trump then mentioned how the other countries are watching all this and that “China is laughing at us.” because “China does not respect us anymore.”
It’s all very obvious that this awful lack of respect of all the fault of that terrible man , Joe Biden.
Donald Trump had also well said “What is now happening in Afghanistan is unbelievable”
Walter Sieruk says
Now that fiendish man ,Biden , creates the catastrophe of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and simultaneously inspires more zeal in Islamic terrorist organizations around the world.
gravenimage says
Schiff Contradicts Biden: Intel Agencies Warned of Rapid Taliban Takeover
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This should have been pretty obvious.
Walter Sieruk says
That despicable ,insidious heinous and traitorous Joe Biden his evil beyond limits
For by abandoning those 15000 Americans in Afghanistan and therefore leaving them in the malicious vicious vengeful heinous grip of Taliban, 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.”
Walter Sieruk says
What awful language . As much a I dislike Joe Biden hope he lives out his full term in Office . If for no other reason if Biden doesn’t last that self-serving, self-centered laughing, rude obnoxious Communist Kamala Harris would replace him.
This with Biden are very bad but with harris as President .things would go from very bad to a complete catastrophe of the most horrendous ways possible.
Comparing those two Biden and Harris it’s rather obvious that creepy old Joe is the “leser ofthe two evils”
Of course, the lesser of two evils is still evil.
Ade Fegan says
That was 5 days ago !
OLD GUY says
I’am sure there are some chuckles taking place in Russia over our getting out of Afghanistan with our tail between our legs.
Two supper powers brought down by a shit hole country.
What went wrong?
Could it be you can’t fight a war with politicians tying the hands of your military leaders as to where you can attack and who you can kill on the battlefield.
And don’t forget the corporations interest in doing business with the enemy.
gravenimage says
Those policies didn’t help–but Afghanistan could not be changed from an Islamic country, either by the Soviet Union or by America.