This is another mistake on Biden’s part. When you are the president of the United States you have to be on it. You have to be keeping up to date with what is happening and have information on hand right away so you have all of your options open to make decisions. So when Kabul fell because President Ashraf Ghani ran away, Biden should have taken action. Senator Tom Cotton found out while questioning General Mark Milley, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and General Kenneth Mckenzie that Biden waited 10 days to ask the military their opinion about staying past the evacuation deadline.
“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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10 days. It looks like Biden didn’t care one bit about evacuating the Americans in Afghanistan. He should have been on top of that, asking the military right away if they would be able to get all of the Americans out or if they needed more time. The Taliban did not have a secure hold on Kabul right away. We could have flown in more troops right away or taken back the city to ensure every American civilian got out. But no, Biden waited until the last minute after the Taliban had fully taken over the city to ask if we should leave the country. Biden set the evacuation to fail when he did nothing for 10 days.
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