Military Leaders Admit Withdrawal From Afghanistan Was a Strategic Failure

Military Leaders Admit Withdrawal From Afghanistan Was a Strategic Failure
https://www.dw.com/en/us-military-le...ded/a-59342862

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/...elite-failure/









"It is true that Afghanistan always posed a major challenge for any strategic planner. It has a varied terrain, a tangled relationship with Pakistan, and a society left broken in the wake of the Soviet invasion. Yet in the face of these challenges, the establishment committed several mistakes originating from either wishful thinking or a complete lack of knowledge. The ignorance started early, dating back to the anti-Soviet campaign before 9/11. Steve Coll in his book Ghost Wars explained that the CIA had to ask Afghan mujahideen how many Stinger missiles the agency had given them, as it had no idea. This kind of elite obtuseness continued to the beginning of the invasion, as the the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, a Princeton-educated former envoy to the Middle East, had to ask even what languages were spoken in Afghanistan. Given this level of illiteracy among our supposed experts and leaders, is it any wonder that they perpetuated as many mistakes as they did?"

Remember those mujahideen? Say hello to the new boss. Same as The old boss.

Those Stinger missiles weren't much of a concern in the beginning when the See-eye-yay was Trying to protect their heroin import business.

Does anyone think we'll ever recover from this appalling height of incompetence, cowardice, and humiliation?

You know it always seems that AFTER the tragedy occurs and AFTER people are abandoned and AFTER someone dies THEN it comes out that MAYBE things could have been done differently. A day late and a dollar short!

I suppose somewhere along the line, it will be admitted that the election was stolen and Beijing was the puppet INSTALLED...

2cent wrote:Does anyone think we'll ever recover from this appalling height of incompetence, cowardice, and humiliation?
 

The real government has always been scared shitless of the shadow government since the Kennedy assassination. More so than ever , these days.

RV wrote:You know it always seems that AFTER the tragedy occurs and AFTER people are abandoned and AFTER someone dies THEN it comes out that MAYBE things could have been done differently. A day late and a dollar short!

I suppose somewhere along the line, it will be admitted that the election was stolen and Beijing was the puppet INSTALLED...

Surely ye jest?
Something like a Manchurian candidate?