The military's botched reaction to Biden's blunder

 Daily Mail:

The retired Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama bin Laden in 2011 is calling on Mark Milley to resign over the US's chaotic evacuation effort from Afghanistan after the country fell to the Taliban on Sunday while his fellow veteran is also calling on the Secretaries of State and Defense to step down.

'There are Afghans falling to their deaths off of our retreating aircraft. Has @thejointstaff resigned yet?' retired SEAL Robert O'Neill wrote on Twitter Monday morning, tagging the official account for the Joint Chiefs of Staff led by Chairman Mark Milley.

The post was bookended by two more also calling for General Milley to resign.

At least eight people were killed at Kabul airport on Monday, including two who were shot dead by US troops, three who were run over by taxiing jets and three stowaways who fell from the engines of a US Air Force plane as it fled an airfield of thousands of desperate Afghan nationals.
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'Have any of our generals and admirals resigned out of disgrace yet?' O'Neill also questioned.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff has not yet released a public statement regarding the Taliban takeover.

Navy SEAL Derrick Van Orden echoed O'Neill's criticisms on Fox & Friends Monday morning.

'Unfortunately, the Biden administration is redefining the word incompetence,' the military man-turned-Congressional candidate said.

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What this event has demonstrated is that the military "social justice" warriors are inadequate to the task of a real military operation against an inferior opponent.   Milley has been wasting his efforts on a snipe hunt for mythical white supremacists instead of focusing on dealing with real enemies.  

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