Before a world leader evacuates his country’s troops from an area that it has occupied for 20 years, you would expect that leader to consult with his military advisors, right? While we may not be privy to know who has Biden’s ear, we do know that it wasn’t his so-called team of experts.
You would be wrong. At least, if that leader is Biden.
According to General Mark Milley, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and General Kenneth McKenzie, Biden waited 10 days after Kabul fell to ask for their advice. Thanks to Senator Tom Cotton, we now know this much:
“General Milley, Joe Biden has said that it was the unanimous recommendation of the Joint Chiefs that we not maintain a military presence beyond August 31. We’ve heard testimony that affects today as well. When was that unanimous recommendation sought and presented to the President?”
“You turn about the 31 August? So we’re getting on 25. August, I was asked to make an assessment to provide the best military advice—” Milley answered. Cotton pressed for specificity. “On August 25, I was asked to provide best military assessment is whether we should keep military forces past the 31st,” Milley said.
“Secretary Austin, was anybody asked before August 25 if we should keep troops at the Kabul airport?” Cotton asked.”This is the president tasked us to provide an assessment on whether or not we should extend our presence beyond August 31,” Austin said. “And as General Milley just said, that assessment was made, we tasked him to make that assessment on the 25th. And he came back and provided his best military advice.”
“Kabul fell on August 15,” Cotton said. “It was clear that we had thousands of Americans— clear to members of this committee. We’re getting phone calls that we had thousands of Americans in Afghanistan behind Taliban lines on August 15. And it took 10 days to ask these general officers. If we should extend our presence? I suspect the answer might be a little different. If you’re asking them 16 days out, not five days out.”
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This is the type of leadership that trapped hundreds of Americans in Afghanistan after failing to properly evacuate. The same administration that oversaw the evacuation at Kabul airport which, ended in the deaths of 13 service members following a terrorist attack.
The very same leadership that lead the US border security to ruin.