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Re: Marines Preparing to Evacuate Embassy in Kabul [Re: airforce] #176462
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Impeachable! Biden abandoning thousands of Americans in Afghanistan as he takes Afghani citizens out ahead of our own
Thursday, August 26, 2021 by: JD Heyes
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-08-26-impeachable-biden-abandoning-americans-in-afghanistan.html

Impeachment proceedings should have begun already against Joe Biden over his aiding and abetting of an invasion of illegal aliens into our country after reversing nearly all of President Donald Trump’s border enforcement policies.

They should also have begun after he recently ignored a Supreme Court ruling stating that the Executive Branch has no constitutional authority to impose or extend a rent and eviction moratorium.

But now, not only should Biden be impeached, but he literally should be charged with treason http://www.treason.news — a strong allegation, yes, but imminently accurate.

Unlike President Donald Trump, whose allegation of ‘treason’ and ‘sedition’ was based on the lie that he “incited” the January 6 breach at the Capitol Building — which we know was really a false flag attack planned by the FBI — Biden leaving American citizens to rot in Taliban cells if they even survive is unforgivable and cannot be allowed to stand. https://newstarget.com/2021-08-23-biden-blasted-for-disastrous-pull-out-of-afghanistan.html

Earlier this week when asked if the administration will be able to get all Americans out of the country before the hard-and-fast Aug. 31 deadline, White House press secretary Jen Psaki indicated that the answer is no.

According to Conservative Brief, Psaki didn’t even bat an eye when she made the admission:
https://conservativebrief.com/psaki-calls-49307

During the press briefing, Psaki not only called Joe Biden’s Afghanistan crisis “a success,” she appeared to admit that not all Americans will be evacuated from the Taliban-controlled country.

Psaki said the mission to evacuate U.S. citizens depended “on continued coordination with the Taliban,” adding that Biden has requested contingency plans from the Pentagon

t didn’t have to be this way. In fact, it shouldn’t have been this way.

Never mind that the United States has literally been in Afghanistan now for two decades; and never mind that a deal was cut with the Taliban, at a cost of releasing some 5,000 Taliban prisoners held by the then-Afghan government, in February 2020, giving the U.S. plenty of time to start getting people out.

And in fact, the Trump administration began the process; U.S. troops and supporting American contractors were gradually reduced over the next several months. But then Trump’s reelection was stolen from him and Biden came in and ignored the terms of the pullout as he ignored and overturned everything else Trump did and accomplished.

What’s taking place in Kabul, Afghanistan, right now with the chaotic debacle unfolding before a mass American hostage situation evolves is actually a lot worse than what happened in what was then Saigon, South Vietnam, in April 1975, when Americans hurriedly evacuated that city on our way out of the Vietnam War — so says a former Chicago Tribune correspondent who was on the ground there at the time.

Ron Yates told a forum this week that he recalls U.S. troops worked for weeks to get South Vietnamese personnel who helped them throughout the conflict out of the country.

“They managed to get a lot of people out,” Yates recalled on The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” on Aug. 20.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/afgha...ormer-foreign-correspondent_3964670.html

But at the same time, the Biden regime failed to do the same for Afghanis who worked for and with the U.S. for decades.

It’s an unmitigated disaster,” Yates said. “They had months to do this. Why couldn’t they have begun this process three or four months ago, slowly taking out these Afghans who were going to be, probably targeted by the Taliban after they took over?”

It’s not as if the regime doesn’t know what’s going to happen. Infowars notes that the State Department this week issued a statement saying that any Americans left behind in Afghanistan will be “without assistance” before officially retracting it.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/stat...-be-without-assistance-then-retracted-it

These seasoned diplomats and deep state functionaries knew what was going to happen — and they let it happen anyway.

That’s treason, straight up. And if the American people let these functionaries and the Biden regime get away with it, we deserve the tyranny that will follow.


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Regardless the US Citizens who did not get out of Afghanistan months ago as soon as the surrender was announced are retards.



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SEEMS LIKE TREASON: Biden regime stockpiled weapons, ammo, equipment for Taliban in months before pull-out: Report
08/24/2021 / By JD Heyes https://www.whitehouse.news/2021-08...weapons-ammo-equipment-for-taliban.html#

According to published reports, it appears as though the Biden regime has done the unthinkable: supplied weapons to the new Taliban government in Afghanistan by default, if not on purpose outright.

Reuters reported last week that even though President Biden announced in April that the U.S. would be withdrawing, the U.S. continued to supply Afghan National Army forces though it was clear to many within the intelligence community that they would not stand and fight the Taliban — that they would run away, thus leaving all of that weaponry to the the same militant group American and NATO forces have been fighting for 20 years.

The newswire service even quotes the top U.S. military official as saying so:
https://www.reuters.com/business/ae...libans-new-us-made-war-chest-2021-08-19/

About a month ago, Afghanistan’s ministry of defense posted on social media photographs of seven brand new helicopters arriving in Kabul delivered by the United States.

“They’ll continue to see a steady drumbeat of that kind of support, going forward,” U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters a few days later at the Pentagon.

In a matter of weeks, however, the Taliban had seized most of the country, as well as any weapons and equipment left behind by fleeing Afghan forces.

Video showed the advancing insurgents inspecting long lines of vehicles and opening crates of new firearms, communications gear and even military drones.

“Everything that hasn’t been destroyed is the Taliban’s now,” an American military official told the newswire on condition of anonymity.

“We have already seen Taliban fighters armed with U.S.-made weapons they seized from the Afghan forces. This poses a significant threat to the United States and our allies,” Representative Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, told Reuters via email.
http://nationalsecurity.news

Now, here’s the kicker: U.S. officials and intelligence officers knew that the Afghan military would never stand up to the Taliban, but our government — the Biden regime — continued to move weapons and military gear and aircraft into the country anyway, with much of the more advanced equipment being taken to neighboring Pakistan, where that government, which American taxpayers fund, will hand it over to their pals, the Chinese.

All of this was verified by investigative reporter Lara Logan last week in an interview that aired on Fox Nation, the network’s new streaming network.

In an interview for “Tucker Carlson Today,” Logan, host of “Lara Logan Has No Agenda” on the same network, laid out all of the details.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/0...lling-the-strings-didnt-want-to-1121196/

She said that whoever is “pulling the strings” in the Biden regime, including deep state types behind the scenes, wanted the Afghanistan situation to develop into a crisis and for it to get worse despite saying that there wasn’t anything anyone could do to stop it.

Logan noted that American officials have known for years, for example, that the Taliban was operating from areas inside Pakistan, with the full knowledge and support of the Pakistan government, military and intelligence service — which the U.S. funds.
http://www.militarytech.news

“What they want you to believe is that Afghanistan is complicated. Because if you complicate it, it’s a tactic in information warfare called ‘ambiguity increasing,’” Logan told Carlson.

“It always comes down to one thing, one or two things. And in this case, in Afghanistan, this comes down to the fact that the United States wants this outcome,” she added. “Whoever is in power right now, whoever is really pulling the strings – and I don’t know that – they could do anything they want to change this. And they’re not.”

“Every time you try to address this issue, the immediate response for 20 years of this war has been, ‘you’re advocating for war in Pakistan.’ No, you’re not. What they know is there are many things the United States could do right now to change what has happened and is happening in Afghanistan. And they’re not doing it,” she added.

Pakistan is the most important country in that region to the U.S. because it is nuclear-armed, Logan added.

“They have pushed through the Bush administration, through Clinton, through Obama, through Trump, and now to Biden that because Pakistan is a nuclear nation, they are the only country in that region that actually matters. In fact, Joe Biden told Afghan’s president — when it was Hamid Karzai still in power– exactly that,” she said.
https://newstarget.com/2021-08-17-bidens-presidency-collapsed-with-afghanistan.html

The outcome in Afghanistan, like the chaos along the U.S.-Mexico border, was planned, as was leaving the Taliban billions in new weapons.
http://bordersecurity.news


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There are reports - unconfirmed so far - of more explosions heard near the Kabul airport.

Biden is supposed to speak in about half an hour. I won't even guess what he's going to say.

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Originally Posted by airforce
At least 12 servicemen are now dead. And still no briefing from the White House or the Pentagon. I suspect they're trying to find some way to spin this.

It doesn’t bode well for the Biden Regime that it’s already struggling, as this is unlikely to be the final attack against US personnel and interests. Attacks are likely to continue until the last American boot steps off of Afghan soil, just as the Soviets experienced.


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I saw that Biden press conference. He really is a nothing burger.

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“U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies to grant entry into the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city’s airport ... the Biden administration has been relying on the Taliban for security outside the airport”
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2...vacuate-506957?__twitter_impression=true

Video: “Side by side with the Taliban. The US military at one of the checkpoints at the Kabul airport. Filmed with a helmet-mounted camera of one of the American Marines.”
https://twitter.com/areyouawaqe/status/1430943104543215619?s=21


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Originally Posted by Navarro
“U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies...


That was... not wise. But it's about what I would expect from these buffoons. mad

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"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861
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“The Taliban have asked Turkey for technical help to run Kabul airport after the departure of foreign forces ... Keeping the airport open after foreign forces hand over control is vital not just for Afghanistan to stay connected to the world but also to maintain aid supplies and operations.“
https://tolonews.com/index.php/afghanistan-174394


It would appear the Taliban wish to ensure the flow of free stuff from the gullible infidel foreigners. Realpolitik. This could suggest the Taliban are motivated to moderate their behavior in order to preserve its international image, and may even be motivated to police other Afghan actors who might tarnish Kabul’s image through acts of aggression and retribution. I understand Beijing has in fact endeavored to influence the Taliban to moderate its behavior, so as to not make waves which might interfere with Beijing’s acquisition of Afghan resources, as well as expansion of its Belt and Road Initiative to Afghanistan.

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“Bilal Karimi, who has functioned as a spokesman for the Taliban, tweeted ... ‘Today, three important locations in the military part of Kabul airport were evacuated by the Americans and are under the control of the Islamic Emirate. Now, a very small part remains with the Americans’”
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/taliban-say-seized-control-parts-kabul-airport-claim-victory

“Taliban forces have taken up position in Kabul airport and are ready to take full control as early as this weekend, as soon as U.S. forces leave, two senior Taliban figures said on Friday.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-...-take-over-taliban-officials-2021-08-27/


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Originally Posted by ConSigCor

“A Marine officer claims he was ‘relieved of duty’ after going viral in a video demanding accountability from military leadership ... Stuart Scheller, a lieutenant colonel, made the announcement in a social media post on Friday ... ‘ I have been relieved for cause based on a lack of trust and confidence’ ... ‘ I will not be making any statements other than what's on my social platforms until I exit the Marine Corps’ ... ‘ When my Marine Corps career comes to an end, I look forward to a new beginning. My life's purpose is to make America the most lethal and effective foreign diplomacy instrument. While my days of hand to hand violence may be ending ... I see a new light on the horizon’”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...age-to-military-leaders-over-afghanistan


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“I Demand Accountability”: Marine Commander Fired For Viral Video Ripping ‘Inept’ Afghan War Decisions

By Zero Hedge Saturday, August 28, 2021

Though there are abundant examples of retired and former military officers publicly demanding accountability of the Biden administration over how the horribly bungled and now utterly tragic Afghan draw down and evacuation is going, it’s incredibly rare and almost unheard of to see an active duty officer voice criticisms directed at top Pentagon brass on a public level.

But one high ranking Marine officer has done just that in a now viral video. Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller until Friday was a sitting Marine infantry battalion commander in good standing, but late in the day it’s been confirmed he was promptly relieved of his command over his statements. “I am willing to throw it all away to say to my senior leaders, ‘I demand accountability,’” the Lieutenant colonel said in the Facebook video which already racked up millions of views across various platforms.

Following the horrific deaths of 13 American soldiers and over 160 Afghans during yesterday’s suicide attack on Kabul airport, Scheller shredded the “ineptitude” of the military’s top leadership, even questioning whether the entirety of the botched withdrawal and evacuation effort means Americans have “died in vain” over the course of the whole two-decade long war.

His focus in the scathing critique was to question whether top brass stood up to the Biden administration, even while knowing that the administration’s decision-making would lead to chaos, disaster, and possible deaths – as is tragically playing out now…

“I’m not saying we’ve got to be in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying: Did any of you throw your rank on the table and say ‘hey, it’s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone,’” he said.

“Did anyone do that? And when you didn’t think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say ‘we completely messed this up.’” Scheller questioned further. What makes the short video unprecedented and raw is also that he’s in uniform, sitting in what appears to be his base office (such ‘political speech’ in open contradiction of the chain of command while in uniform violates DoD policies). The long-serving officer of 17 years knows this, as he later acknowledged in a short follow-up message. “Did any of you throw your rank on the table…” – and question? …Sheller himself does just that, and is now paying the price for it.

Politico and others later in the day Friday confirmed that not only was Scheller quickly relieved of command within 24 hours, but that action is being taken which will lead to discharge from the service altogether, likely pending UCMJ proceedings.

“I’ve been in the Marine infantry for 17 years. I started my tour with Victor 1-8, that’s the current unit that’s doing perimeter security, dealing with the mess that’s going on there,” Scheller explained in the video.

It’s being widely reported that until being relieved on Friday, he was commander of the School of Infantry East (SOI-EAST) at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

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In the video he ripped everyone from top Marine commanders to the Secretary of Defense for failures in Afghanistan which led to more senseless deaths.

“But we have a secretary of defense that testified to Congress in May that the Afghan National Security Forces could withstand the Taliban advance,” he said. “We have Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs — who the commandant is a member of that — who’s supposed to advise on military policy. We have a Marine combatant commander. All of these people are supposed to advise.”

Should things continue to spiral downhill in Kabul over these coming days, possibly with more terror attacks looming, could the American public witness more such symbolic acts of ‘rebellion’ to come within the ranks of active duty US troops against the Biden administration?

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Lt. Col. Scheller’s full video comments can be viewed here.


"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861
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“Top leadership at the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) informed active duty and retired service members that they cannot condemn President Joe Biden amid the chaotic — and now deadly — pullout of American troops from Afghanistan ... per a Uniform Code of Military Justice and Department of Defense Directive clause they cannot disrespect senior government leadership ... Per the same uniformed personnel policy, ONI members cannot participate in partisan political activity or distribute partisan political literature. An internal ONI member told The Daily Wire that these policies were more relaxed under the Trump administration and recalled retired officers condemning the former President ... In other portions of the email, ONI members are reassured that their investment in the Afghanistan war was not a waste of time.“
https://www.dailywire.com/news/excl...isrespect-biden-over-afghanistan-debacle


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Originally Posted by Navarro
... per a Uniform Code of Military Justice and Department of Defense Directive clause they cannot disrespect senior government leadership ...


That has always been true. That's why Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Lt. Col. Scheller was right, but he also knew it would end his career.

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“The Taliban has strongly condemned a US drone strike in retaliation for the Kabul airport suicide bombing, calling it a ‘clear attack’ on Afghan soil”
https://www.rt.com/news/533350-taliban-us-drone-strike/

“The situation on the ground continues to be extremely dangerous, and the threat of terrorist attacks on the airport remains high. Our commanders informed me that an attack is highly likely in the next 24-36 hours.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...iden-on-the-evacuation-mission-in-kabul/

Former CIA: “There’s a minor rumor in the IC/Mil world that the Afghanistan debacle wasn’t a mistake: The Biden Regime didn’t want Afghanistan to collapse a year from now — right before the 2022 midterm elections — as the IC forecasted. Better to have it collapse now.”
https://twitter.com/bryandeanwright/status/1429505098640658435?s=21


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The Afghanistan debacle reveals how rarely general officers are held accountable for their actions. Field grade officers and NCO's are not amused.

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The general officer U.S. military ranks have a big problem: The field grade officer and noncommissioned officer ranks have had enough of the double standards applied to leadership.

Top line: Whereas those out in the field are held strictly accountable for any failure, real or imagined, general officer ranks are rarely held accountable for far worse leadership failures that have a far greater impact.


One Marine lieutenant colonel just evinced this sentiment in a Facebook video post. Looking directly into the camera, Stuart Scheller stated , "I think what you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk. So, if I’m willing to risk my current battalion commander seat, my retirement, my family’s stability to say some of the things I want to say, I think it gives me some moral high ground to demand the same honesty, integrity, accountability from my senior leaders."

Explaining his "demand for accountability," Scheller referenced the double standards applied to field grade officers and general officers. He noted that if a "battalion commander has the simplest live-fire incident, [equal opportunity] complaint. Boom. Fired." But Scheller pointed out that there has been no accountability for the litany of leadership failures that have defined the withdrawal from Afghanistan. He noted that "we have a secretary of defense that testified to Congress in May that the Afghan National Security Forces could withstand the Taliban advance. We have chairmen of the Joint Chiefs — who the [Marine Corps] commandant is a member of [the Joint Chiefs] — who’s supposed to advise on military policy. We have a Marine combatant commander. All of these people are supposed to advise."


Scheller's point is well-made. But the lieutenant colonel's is just one example of the Pentagon's double standards fetish.

The Navy served up another example last year. Facing a COVID outbreak, Capt. Brett Crozier of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier ordered his ship to port. Crozier was then relieved of his command. That decision sparked fury among lower ranks, who rightly believed that Crozier was being punished for protecting his personnel but embarrassing the admirals. Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly then helpfully lambasted the Theodore Roosevelt's crew for their support of Crozier.

The rage was and remains justified. Any shipboard mistake or failure results in a near-guaranteed relief of command. But when it comes to failures on the part of senior officers?

Forget it.

Whether it's vast cost and delivery overruns for already undesirable platforms such as the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier or the absurd F-35 fighter jet , the admirals and generals in charge get to skate into promotion, to retirement, and then onto the boards of defense companies. Such defective professional culture sets an incentive for ambitious young officers to focus more on the risks and politics of a mission than accomplishing said mission. Risk aversion bears particular concern with regard to the Navy and Marine Corps, which would need field grade officers to show initiative and a high-risk tolerance in any conflict with China .

The challenge is real.

As Scheller was likely losing his career on Friday, a Pentagon general officer was proving that political cover comes first. Asked whether the Taliban had been handed a list of Afghan allies (as reported by Politico ), Army Gen. Hank Taylor arrogantly suggested that handing over this de facto kill list was a good idea. In so doing, Taylor reminded everyone that the prerequisite to be a U.S. general officer is no longer to evince intellect and leadership, but rather to show utter subservience to higher ranks.

Leadership starts at the top and sets the initiative down the ranks. It's time for some four stars to resign.


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Amrican University students abandoned, turned away at airport gates.

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The U.S. botched exit out of Afghanistan just gets worse every day it seems. As the press finally steps up to do their jobs and hold the Biden administration accountable, many are still giving cover for the president, even after 13 of our servicemen and women were tragically killed by terrorists.

Today, the big three networks chose not to report on another heartbreaking story out of the New York Times, Sunday, about university students trapped in Afghanistan, abandoned by the U.S., as the August 31 deadline nears.

The [i]Times[/i[ reported Sunday that hundreds of students at the American University of Kabul were promised that they would be evacuated and waited all day at the airport Sunday, only to be turned away:

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Hundreds of students, their relatives and staff of the American University of Afghanistan gathered at a safe house on Sunday and boarded buses in what was supposed to be a final attempt at evacuation on U.S. military flights, the students said.

But after seven hours of waiting for clearance to enter the airport gates and driving around the city, the group met a dead end: Evacuations were permanently called off. The airport gates remained a security threat, and civilian evacuations were ending Monday.


Even worse, these students were also told that their names and information had been shared with the Taliban by the U.S. military, according to “protocol,” which is consistent with other reports about American names being handed over to the Taliban:

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The email asked the 600 or so students and relatives to return home. The U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan must be completed by a Tuesday deadline, so the U.S. military is turning from evacuating civilians to bringing its own personnel home.

The group was then alarmed after the U.S. military, following protocol, shared a list of names and passport information of hundreds of students and their families with the Taliban guarding the airport checkpoints, the university president said.

“They told us: we have given your names to the Taliban,” said Hosay, a 24-year-old sophomore studying business administration who was on the bus on Sunday. “We are all terrified, there is no evacuation, there is no getting out.”


This is at least the second report revealing how the U.S. was giving “kill lists” to the Taliban. This weekend, NBC and CNN journalists grilled Biden officials on this alarming news and one Biden official even admitted that names were given.

This morning the networks briefly touched on how many Americans and Afghans trying to evacuate would be left behind.

On Good Morning America, ABC's Ian Pannell reported how at least 250 Americans are still stranded in Afghanistan: “The urgency to evacuate greater than ever. Only 50 American citizens able to get out in a 24-hour period over the weekend. At least 250 who say they want to leave still remain," he stated.

On NBC’s Today show, Richard Engel reported, “The U.S. Is in the final stages of the evacuation. People are not able to get on to the air base anymore. Many Afghans are frightened and it looks as if they are going to have to wait for the civilian airport to open up. No indication when that might happen, however.”


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A new video has emerged from LTC Scheller, and it’s interesting:
https://youtu.be/Lj4RHa0G1Bk

“I worked in MARSOC ... You have no idea what I’m capable of doing ... Follow me and we will bring the whole fucking system down ... we’re just getting started.”

Also interesting is his social media activity:
https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1432538310283509763?s=21

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I wish him well.

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"Everybody screwed up." I'm glad you noticed, but since it's everybody's fault, no one gets fired. Because, you know, you can't fire everybody.

We'll see about that.

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WASHINGTON, Sept 1 (Reuters) - A week into the evacuation from Kabul, the U.S. military was forced to take a drastic step: stop all flights from Hamid Karzai International Airport for seven hours because there was nowhere for the evacuees to go.

For months, military officials had urged the U.S. State Department to convince other countries to take Afghans at risk from Taliban retaliation. They had largely failed to secure agreements with other countries, prompting officials across the U.S. government to rush to try to find space for the evacuees.

The Biden administration's scramble was emblematic of failures over the past month, which culminated with a hastily organized airlift that left thousands of U.S.-allied Afghans behind and was punctuated by a suicide bombing outside Kabul's airport that killed 13 U.S. troops and scores of Afghans.

The chaotic end to America's longest war has sparked the biggest crisis of President Joe Biden's seven months in the White House, finger-pointing within the administration and questions about who, if anyone, would be held responsible.

Despite the missteps, the administration carried out one of the largest airlifts in history, evacuating more than 120,000 Americans, Afghans and people of other nationalities amidthe threat of attacks by Islamic State militants.

The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan on Monday.

Current and former officials and lawmakers said there is little appetite for Biden to fire or demote top advisers over the handling of the U.S. withdrawal. The Democratic president, meanwhile, has strongly defended his administration's actions.

Frustrated and angry, officials at the Pentagon have privately blamed the lack of urgency leading up to the airlift on the State and Homeland Security departments, who in turn have blamed the White House for slow decision-making.

"Finger-pointing is an ugly Washington sport ... in this case, fingers could be pointed in all directions and probably be right in each case," said Dan Fried, a former senior U.S. diplomat now at the Atlantic Council think tank.

"A failure like this is collective. Everybody screwed up," Fried added.


A source familiar with the matter defended the evacuation planning and said the State Department was unaware of any concerns at the Department of Defense about a lack of urgency in the effort.

White House officials told Reuters that firings have not been discussed, but the administration expects Congress to aggressively investigate the turbulent exit from Afghanistan in hearings.

One Biden administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said any dismissal would be seen as a tacit admission that the president had erred in removing troops unconditionally from the South Asian nation.


Biden, in a defiant speech on Tuesday, defended his decision to withdraw the troops and stood by the evacuation plan.

"Some say we should have started mass evacuations sooner and 'Couldn’t this have be done - have been done in a more orderly manner?' I respectfully disagree," said Biden, who noted that he was ultimately responsible for the withdrawal.


POLITICAL DECISION


Democratic congressional committee leaders have pledged thorough reviews of the events in Afghanistan, but they made clear they intend to look into the entire 20-year conflict, which unfolded under the watch of four presidents, starting with Republican President George W. Bush.

On Tuesday, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the administration has provided many classified and unclassified briefings to lawmakers.

"Now, it's a 20-year war, so there's obviously a lot to dig into," she said.

Democrats want to pursue Biden's domestic agenda - expanding social programs, funding infrastructure and protecting voting rights. On the national security front, they want to highlight their investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.

How Congress eventually proceeds will depend on the level of interest from voters.

Less than 40% of Americans approve of Biden's handling of the military withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan said last month that the Biden administration would conduct a "hotwash" - an after-action review - to discover what went wrong in Afghanistan, and that he expected results of that review to be made public.


White House officials said on Tuesday the review had not begun.


WHO IS TO BLAME?


The last month in Afghanistan was a series of failures, from the intelligence and military to diplomatic and immigration fronts, with one core error the failure to anticipate the speed of the Taliban's advance and collapse of the Afghan military.

"In some way, everyone is to blame," a U.S. official said on condition of anonymity.

Some Republicans have pointed fingers at Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken as the ones most responsible for setting the conditions for a chaotic evacuation, and have demanded their departure.

Republicans also have called for Biden to fire the U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, who negotiated the Trump administration's 2020 deal with the Taliban that set the stage for the withdrawal.

But when House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was asked whether he thought Biden or Blinken should be impeached, the California Republican did not answer, saying instead his focus was on getting the Americans out of Afghanistan.

Defense officials told Reuters the State Department appeared out of touch with the reality on the ground in Afghanistan and had too much confidence in the Afghan government.

During a congressional hearing in June, Blinken was asked if the administration was considering getting at-risk Afghans out of the country while their cases were being reviewed.

"If there is a significant deterioration in security, that could well happen, we discussed this before, I don't think it's going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday," Blinken said.

The Taliban seized two of Afghanistan's three largest cities - Kandahar and Herat - on Friday, Aug. 13 and took Kabul, the capital, two days later.


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Since Biden is the commander in chief, the buck stops with him. The entire joint chiefs should be sacked.


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The Taliban is grounding airplanes, Biden says there's little he can do.

quote]The State Department says there is little it can do to help Americans and at-risk Afghans whose planes are reportedly grounded at an airport as the Taliban prevents them from leaving the country.

At least six chartered planes are attempting to evacuate these Americans and others from Mazar-i-Sharif International Airport, but the Taliban is reportedly preventing them from taking off. Since it evacuated U.S. military forces and diplomatic personnel from the war-torn country, the Biden administration has not had the resources necessary to ensure that flights chartered by nonprofit groups and others can depart Afghanistan.

"We do not have personnel on the ground, we do not have air assets in the country, we do not control the airspace—whether over Afghanistan or elsewhere in the region," a State Department spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon. "We understand the concern that many people are feeling as they try to facilitate further charter and other passage out of Afghanistan."

While the State Department says it has little to no information about the situation but is pressing the Taliban to make good on its promise to allow Americans to leave the country, Republican lawmakers are now raising the alarm that the Taliban is grounding planes as leverage to extract concessions from the Biden administration.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Texas), lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who has received classified briefings on the matter, told Fox News on Sunday morning that there are hundreds of American still trapped in Afghanistan and that the "Taliban want something in exchange" for letting these people leave.

McCaul has been tracking the situation and says the State Department cleared these flights to leave, but that the Taliban is responsible for stopping them. The State Department reportedly confirmed to Congress that flights from Mazar-i-Sharif are being held until the Taliban gives its approval.

McCaul says the planes have been stuck at the airport for the past several days and include American passengers, as well as Afghans who are trying to flee the Taliban, which has been trying to detain those citizens who worked with the United States and other coalition forces during the 20-year operation there.

"What we are seeing right now in Mazar-i-Sharif—this didn’t have to happen," McCaul told the Free Beacon. "If the president had listened to the bipartisan pleas from Congress, his own generals, or the intelligence community, he would have properly planned for this withdrawal, including evacuating Americans before he pulled out the military. Instead, Americans are trapped in a country run by brutal terrorists, who are currently not allowing them to leave."

The State Department said Sunday that it does not have a "reliable means" to get information about the passengers on the charter flights.

"Given these constraints, we also do not have a reliable means to confirm the basic details of charter flights, including who may be organizing them, the number of U.S. citizens and other priority groups on-board, the accuracy of the rest of the manifest, and where they plan to land, among many other issues," the spokesman said.[/quote]

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Where are the predator drones when we need them? Biden should tell the Taliban he will be sending them a cruise missile with pig guts in it besides the explosives in it every day until they let everyone leave who wants to.

I sure wouldn't live in a country full of hajji perverts. I would have started hiking to the border instead of being a hostage of the Taliban.

airforce, why do you suppose these people stayed in Afghanistan instead of leaving months ago when the US pull out was announced?


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...airforce, why do you suppose these people stayed in Afghanistan instead of leaving months ago when the US pull out was announced?


Quite a few of them have family members they were reluctant to leave behind. But I imagine almost all of them actually believed what Biden and Milley were telling them at the time.

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That makes sense but why would US Citizens stay? Did they marry mooslems?


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Some of them, I'm sure, did. Some were living in other provinces outside Kabul, and were trapped there. And some were too frightened to leave their homes. And some of them have family members in Afghanistan, and were reluctant to leave without them.

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I wish him well.

“Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, the officer who went viral for blasting the military's leadership amid the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, has been sent to the brig ... he was told by superiors to stop posting to social media altogether, an order he immediately ignored by posting about the gag order. The officer also seemingly realized that last post could result in his trip to the brig. ‘What happens when all you do is speak truth and no one wants to hear it. But they can probably stop listening because… I’m crazy… right?’ Scheller wrote at the end of the post. ‘Col Emmel please have the MPs waiting for me at 0800 on Monday. I’m ready for jail.’ Scheller is ‘currently in pre-trial confinement,’ a spokesperson for Training and Education Command said of the officer's status. ‘The time, date, and location of the proceedings have not been determined. Lt. Col. Scheller will be afforded all due process,’ the statement continued.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/o...-afghanistan-is-jailed-report/ar-AAOT7wR

Scheller’s Facebook two days ago:
“America is at a critical crossroad in the evolution of the representative democracy. Americans reflecting on their current government must consider a critical question that determines the fate of the current representative democracy. The critical question: Does the current government still serve the interests of the people? ... if the American people feel the answer to the critical question is ‘no’ or ‘the government is so broken that fundamental change needs to occur’ then the American people must evaluate the four options laid out by the founding fathers to make fundamental change ... 1) Navigating a new generation of thinkers through one of the two existing major parties, 2) Building a new generation of thinkers in a smaller pre-existing nationally recognized third party, 3) Exercising article V of the Constitution, or 4) Revolution. ... if the government doesn’t serve the interests of the people, it’s the people’s obligation to throw off the old form of government.”
https://www.facebook.com/100029569003221/posts/614344559561172/?d=n


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About 100 Americans are still trying to leave Afghanistan. That's about twice the number of Americans held hostage by Iran in 1979.

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The United States is aware of about 100 American citizens and legal permanent residents (LPRs) who remain in Afghanistan and are ready to leave the country, a senior State Department official said on Monday.

The State Department was working to get those people on flights out of Afghanistan, said the official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity.

"Our highest priority in Afghanistan, of course, remains helping those American citizens who wish to leave the country now to do so," the official said.

About 124,000 people were airlifted out of Kabul after the U.S.-backed government there collapsed last month and the Taliban took control.

Since U.S. forces departed and handed over the airport on Aug. 31, 85 American citizens and 79 LPRs have left Afghanistan on sporadic flights, according to the official.

However, some American citizens did not want to leave Afghanistan without family members who did not have the required travel documents to enter the United States, the official said.

The United States would soon intensify efforts to help the immediate family members of American citizens who did not have the needed documentation, the official said, but would not do so for their "extended" families, which could include a large number of people.

"I entirely understand how painful that choice may be for them, but for matters of law and policy, up to this point, we have not extended support for expedited departure and resettlement in the U.S. for extended family members of U.S. citizens," the official said.


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