Strategic failure — perfectly executed
General Milley blames President Biden for Afghan catastrophe
By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times - Tuesday, September 28, 2021
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Well, now we know why there was no plan to evacuate Afghanistan after 20 years without abandoning thousands of American citizens and allies on the battlefield, killing 13 U.S. troops, and surrendering $80 billion worth of American military equipment to our terrorist enemy.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley was too busy to come up with one. He was too busy leaking to a raft of Washington reporters who spent the past year digging up dirt for the library of rabidly anti-Trump books they were writing.
Indeed, loose lips really do sink ships.
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It was a moment of stunning honesty during Tuesday’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Republican, ordered Gen. Milley to provide simple “yes” or “no” answers to her questions in hopes that he might quit all the dodging and weaving he had been doing all morning about the disastrous collapse of Kabul.
“‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to this — Did you talk to Bob Woodward or Robert Costa for their book, Peril?”
“Woodward, yes. Costa, no.”
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