by Tom Rogan
I understand that the commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division has told the commander of the British special forces at the Kabul airport to cease operations beyond the airport perimeter.
Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue has told his British Army counterpart, a high-ranking field-grade officer of the British army’s 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, that British operations were embarrassing the United States military in the absence of similar U.S. military operations. I understand that the British officer firmly rejected the request.
This show of rare tension between the U.S. and British command groups in Kabul reflects three factors.
First, it shows the obvious stress of attempting to extricate thousands of personnel under a situation of increasing terrorist threat. Elements of the Haqqani network, the Islamic State in Afghanistan, and possibly al Qaeda are now operating in proximity to Kabul airport with some degree of command separation from the Taliban.
In addition, the British military has more operational latitude in Kabul than the U.S. military, including the Navy SEAL elements present at the airport. I understand that the SAS has conducted operations to bring American citizens, as well as British citizens and at-risk personnel, through checkpoints and to the airport. This is not an indictment on U.S. capabilities or special operations intent, but rather, it’s a reflection of political-military authorities. In part, this difference is understandable. Large-scale U.S. military operations beyond the Kabul airport perimeter would entail significant risk absent prior Taliban approval. But there is a sense, at least by allies, that the U.S. military could be doing more to leverage the Taliban into providing greater ease of access to the airport for those most at risk.
So, appearances is all that matter?
Shame on our military and Joe.
At least one head should roll.
I guess when you retread all the failed losers from the Obama administration (because Obama made you), you get the same results in similar situations. During the sacking of the Benghazi consulate, a completely self-inflicted wound, the Obama administration was more worried about the political downside of a rescue effort than they were about the lives in jeopardy. Likewise, in Afghanistan, the idiot Biden regime, mired in a gigantic, chaotic disaster of their own making, worry more about how a rescue effort for stranded Americans and allies might affect their political lives than they worry about the lives at the mercy of torturing, beating, beheading Taliban thugs.
When someone else shows up and demonstrates what determination looks like, it is embarrassing. I don’t know if this story is actually true, but it is based on reality.
The White House’s readout of a call between Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron
on the crisis in Afghanistan leaves out an impassioned plea from the French president that the US and its allies have a “moral responsibility” to evacuate Afghan allies.
The French government’s readout of the conversation indicates that Macron
emphasised ensuring the safe evacuation of Afghan citizens who assisted American and European troops over the past 20 years at great risk to themselves and their families.
MORE:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/20/afghanistan-macron-biden-moral-responsibility-evacuate-allies
So, now the US gov’t, under Biden, is pulling an Arafat.
One statement for the Europeans, a completely different version of the same conversation told to his “palestinian” rabble.
That might have worked pre-internet, but not now.
The Biden puppet masters are only concerned about 1st impressions siding with their narrative.
The facts can die on a “corrections” page days later.
That’s what happens when a populace gets their news via one-liners on their “smart” phones.
Highly Visible CNN Journalist, Whose Reporting Caught Biden Administration in Lies, Pulled From Kabul Airport
The Kabul airport in Afghanistan has essentially become the collective Alamo; the only area in Afghanistan under U.S and allied military control since the Taliban took over. In the past several days The White House, National Security Advisor, U.S. State Department, Pentagon and even Joe Biden himself, have been caught telling lies about the security status of the situation on the ground in/around the Kabul airport.
One of the key media figures who has accidentally exposed the transparent Biden lies, by simply reporting on the events as she sees them, is Clarissa Ward of CNN. As long as Ms. Ward was reporting live, broadcasting in real time on the ground just outside the airport, it was almost impossible for the Biden administration to maintain their false stories about security and safety that were different from reality.
Ward’s reporting has been catching the Biden administration in lies for the past three days. Other media outlets were relying on Ms. Ward’s reports in their own questions to the Biden regime. Well, guess what? A few hours ago that dynamic changed. Clarissa Ward is no longer there:
Chose to leave, forced to leave, or told to leave?
You decide.
A clear reason why America has not won a war in 75 years. The RISK ADVERSE Donahue should have been “passed over” 3 times as Capt!
No one as gutless as he should be “Field Grade” absolutely not ‘Flag.
But he unfortunately is not unique. And America ca not win a war.
“The battle is to the boldest!”!