Does seem pretty strange that she and her crew hadn't even tried to get to the airport as Kabul was falling. Doubt any of them were just like "
it, let's roll the dice on keeping our heads when they get here."
Taliban in control way to go Joe
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Does seem pretty strange that she and her crew hadn't even tried to get to the airport as Kabul was falling. Doubt any of them were just like "
it, let's roll the dice on keeping our heads when they get here."
El Correcto
god is dead
These leftist media giants are toxic. Just like that AP in Gaza.
sailfish
Master of Karate and Friendship for Everyone
Or just stupid and thinks no one will hurt her because she's understanding and tolerant.
floridays
Well-Known Member
Without much thought, I disagree.
You must understand, this is the democracts plan no matter who is in office.
Biden was who they needed, he was the only one electable that the democrats had.
Period, and that took changing voting laws, unconstitutionally in swing states to get him elected.
Willie Browns Ho, Kamala, the next, in line was dismissed by her own party.
This is Bernie Sanders agenda.
Biden was the only democrat the democrats in charge of the party knew had a chance at beating Trump to move their agenda forward.
Bring on Willie Brown's Ho, democrats disliked her as much as everyone else.
floridays
Well-Known Member
I can, he has close to a 50 year track record.
oldngray
nowhere special
Brownsocks
Just a dog
President Trump would have never abandoned our people 
DriveInDriѵeOut
Inordinately Right
DriveInDriѵeOut
Inordinately Right
“They’re just chanting ‘Death to America’ but they seem friendly at the same time.”
Lol, classic CNN.
fishtm2001
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Let's round this all up:
- Hubristic nation building.
- Starry-eyed constitution writing.
- Wildly unrealistic military training.
- Vast corruption.
- Lack of food and weapons for Afghan soldiers.
- Bad negotiating from the Trump administration.
- Afghan leadership void.
AP FACT CHECK: Biden skirts US failures in Afghan mayhem
President Joe Biden is suggesting Afghans are largely responsible for the desperation at Kabul's airport as civilians try to escape the Taliban.
apnews.com
“While asserting “the buck stops with me,” Biden blamed Afghans in large measure for the chaotic evacuation at Kabul’s airport and conceded no missteps.”
UnionStrong
Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
She probably bent over right now getting it up the ole Hershey highway
fishtm2001
Well-Known Member
"...the bulk of the blame has to be placed on the army. They were the ones on the ground. They were the ones who built an Afghan military that was completely unsuitable to the country. They're the ones who apparently never grasped the full extent of the corruption they were up against. They were the ones who advised four different US presidents that things were going well if they could just have a little more time and a few more troops."AP FACT CHECK: Biden skirts US failures in Afghan mayhem
President Joe Biden is suggesting Afghans are largely responsible for the desperation at Kabul's airport as civilians try to escape the Taliban.
“While asserting “the buck stops with me,” Biden blamed Afghans in large measure for the chaotic evacuation at Kabul’s airport and conceded no missteps.”
Drum
Drum blames the Afghan army for the horrendous execution of our withdrawal?
If so, it sounds like the people over at the AP who are typically ardent Democrat deepthroaters should fact check Drum too.
fishtm2001
Well-Known Member
Government officials have been getting paid off by the Taliban for months. That's why the provinces folded so quickly. The military was telling Biden it would be months before the Taliban could take over. As usual they were wrong.
DELACROIX
In the Spirit of Honore' Daumier
AP FACT CHECK: Biden skirts US failures in Afghan mayhem
President Joe Biden is suggesting Afghans are largely responsible for the desperation at Kabul's airport as civilians try to escape the Taliban.
“While asserting “the buck stops with me,” Biden blamed Afghans in large measure for the chaotic evacuation at Kabul’s airport and conceded no missteps.”
So..So Racist..
fishtm2001
Well-Known Member
Russia says Afghan president fled with cars and helicopter full of cash - RIA
Russia's embassy in Kabul said on Monday that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had fled the country with four cars and a helicopter full of cash and had to leave some money behind as it would not all fit in, the RIA news agency reported.
Where’d you read that?
fishtm2001
Well-Known Member
"No one can claim to be surprised that the Afghan military folded. That it would has been clear for over a decade.
There are real questions, though, about whether the intelligence community knew how far up the Afghan government the plans to capitulate in exchange for payment went. And that question drives further intelligence questions. Ashraf Ghani has been privy to our Afghan intelligence collection. Hamid Karzai, who is playing a clear broker role but it’s not yet clear with and for whom, likewise was privy to a lot of our intelligence collection. The Taliban have had twenty years to learn how to evade our surveillance. Russia has been stealing key technical data for the last decade, focusing closely on our Afghan operations, and they seem quite chuffed with recent events.
If some or all those people have been working in concert, and may well have been since Trump acceded to this plan last year, it would be child’s play for them to hide from US intelligence how far up the chain of command would cede to the Taliban, if not actively disinform US intelligence. And that, in turn, would make it far easier to take over the country so quickly that the Taliban were even shocked.
If that happened, then it was a real intelligence failure that explains why the US wasn’t better prepared for the collapse of the Afghan government, even without excusing self-serving claims that the Afghan military might have lasted a week or a month or a year longer than they did."
Marci Wheeler
There are real questions, though, about whether the intelligence community knew how far up the Afghan government the plans to capitulate in exchange for payment went. And that question drives further intelligence questions. Ashraf Ghani has been privy to our Afghan intelligence collection. Hamid Karzai, who is playing a clear broker role but it’s not yet clear with and for whom, likewise was privy to a lot of our intelligence collection. The Taliban have had twenty years to learn how to evade our surveillance. Russia has been stealing key technical data for the last decade, focusing closely on our Afghan operations, and they seem quite chuffed with recent events.
If some or all those people have been working in concert, and may well have been since Trump acceded to this plan last year, it would be child’s play for them to hide from US intelligence how far up the chain of command would cede to the Taliban, if not actively disinform US intelligence. And that, in turn, would make it far easier to take over the country so quickly that the Taliban were even shocked.
If that happened, then it was a real intelligence failure that explains why the US wasn’t better prepared for the collapse of the Afghan government, even without excusing self-serving claims that the Afghan military might have lasted a week or a month or a year longer than they did."
Marci Wheeler
fishtm2001
Well-Known Member
US military analysis says Kabul could fall to Taliban in 90 days: Official
A new military analysis warns that Kabul could become isolated in 30 to 60 days and could fall to the militant group in 90 days, a U.S. official confirmed to ABC News.
