Oh, if Biden and his handlers had only listened to the advice they were given.
townhall.com
The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General released its quarterly Operation Freedom's Sentinel report to Congress on Tuesday, providing "background about events leading up to recent, significant and fast moving developments in Afghanistan."
The 98-page
report reveals what the Pentagon knew about Afghan security forces' capabilities and the threats posed by the Taliban and other terrorist groups in the country. What it shows is that the Biden administration knew that the events of the last few weeks were not only possible but were likely to take place. The report is peppered with DIA intelligence and media reporting that showed the Afghan forces couldn't ward off Taliban aggression without U.S. and coalition support, yet the Biden administration responded with surprise as the Taliban took one provincial capital after another and last weekend arrived in Kabul.
As the IG report outlines, the Biden administration knew that the Afghan forces were unlikely to succeed in slowing or stopping the Taliban's advance, it knew the Taliban had its sights set on Kabul, and it knew that the Taliban was only engaged in political negotiations to seek legitimacy but planned to step up its military offensive to take the country by force. It also warned that plans for Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport were likely insufficient due to a complicated agreement with Turkish forces.
What Biden and his administration apparently didn't take seriously — as his public statements and those of his senior administration officials from the State Department to the Pentagon show — were reports from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) that said Afghan forces "very likely will struggle" to stop or reverse Taliban advances. Intelligence that the Taliban was preparing for "large-scale offensives against provincial centers and complex attacks" on Afghan installations was also reported, apparently to no avail.
If they had, it seems to me that it wouldn't have been the utter mess that it is, that such a mess could have been avoided.
Yeah, this 100% Biden's, and Harris', apparently.
The vice president confirmed she was the last person in the room before Biden made the decision to move forward with withdrawing U.S. troops.
www.politico.com
Vice President Kamala Harris confirmed Sunday that she was the last person in the room before President Joe Biden made the decision to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan.
In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” Harris was asked about being the last person in the room regarding major decisions, something that Biden has said is important to him in his working relationship with the vice president. Harris confirmed that was the case regarding the move to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11.
Yet, once again, Harris is AWOL.
Biden, Harris AWOL amid Kabul chaos under Taliban
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