Why didn't anyone in the top command of the military say the Afghan retreat was a mistake?

 Greg Gutfeld:

Talk about a rough week. Terrorists attacked the Kabul airport, killing 13 U.S. service members. 10 Marines, two Army soldiers, and one Navy corpsman. At least 160 Afghans were killed.

The mayhem believed to have been carried out by the Islamic group, ISIS-K. The president tried to speak. Then Jen Psaki spoke. But somehow I don't feel comforted.

The president seemed defeated, lost between spasms of anger. Then followed instructions to use a list of reporters given to him by whoever is really in charge.

And Jen was just Jen, acting as though she was doing us a favor, instead of her job. A job I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. Besides Perino already was press secretary.

I go back to one question: how could everyone but the people in charge not see this coming? Maybe they were so busy distracting us, that they got distracted while distracting us.

Look, I’m an English major, magazine editor turned class clown with an obsession over unicorns, and I could see this coming. Hell, the blind sheik could see this coming, after a conference call with Helen Keller. How could the people in charge not?

Perhaps they did and just assumed carnage was the price we pay. Or maybe they just underestimated the risk. Which boggles the mind.

But again, I’m no expert. And yet, how do I know better?

Going forward how can we have any confidence in our leaders? I wouldn’t let them lead my paintball team. They make the Bay of Pigs look well thought out.

I mean who gives control of the airport perimeter to the Taliban, as well as info on Americans. Could we have made it any easier for these medieval maggots?

They will say, "we had no choice." But since when has the military with the best weapons not had a choice? Instead, they led us to a place where there was no plan b. That's not leadership, that's resignation.

And where are the resignations? Where are the firings? Maybe General Milley should put down the Robin DiAngelo and pick up the "Art of War."
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It's incredible: how the woke embrace has destroyed the Democratic Party. You can't lead a country you think is racist while obsessing over pronouns and crackpots in Viking hats.

So we ended up relying on the Taliban to keep us safe. That's like letting Charlie Manson babysit your kids. It reminds me of the Portland mayor, who decided to make peace with Antifa while shafting the police. We chose a regime that stones women to death for showing too much ankle - at the expense of the troops.
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We did have a Marine Lt. Col. give up his career to ask why no one else was resigning over some of the stupidest orders in the history of this country. I suspect books will be written about the failure of command to deal with a dementia-addled President.  I think some of the failures were their own wokeness.  Austin and Milley were more concerned about mythical "white supremacy" and "white rage" to deal with actual problems like losing a war.

What is clear to me is that the current command from Biden on down have lost the confidence of much of this country.  They all should resign or be removed from office.

See, also:

Resign

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If you didn’t suck, you’d have quit. When President Durwood told you to ditch Bagram Air Base, you joint chiefs should have got together, realized this was going to get a bunch of the guys that America entrusted to you killed, and decided to resign. You can’t disobey, but you can take a stand.

Well, you did take a kind of stand. You just stood there. As one sergeant major told me today, the newest second lieutenant would identify this op as a disaster in the making. Now, far be it from me to contradict an E9, but I expect he would agree that even the greenest Girl Scout recruit would ask, “What the unholy hell are you idiots thinking, pulling the military out and giving up our secure airbase before you’ve completed your noncombatant evacuation operation?”

You could have quit. You could have salvaged some shred of honor after your years of total failure, but making a stand would come at the expense of your careers.
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Instead, they released the terrorists held at that base responsible for killing the troops doing evacuation.