Biden put a political deadline on a military operation leading to a fiasco

 Jeff Dunetz:

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Biden blew the withdrawal because it was not treated as a military operation. It was a political operation dressed in military fatigues. Joe Biden wanted the U.S. out of Afghanistan before the 20th anniversary of September 11. He wanted to have the photo op on 9/11/21 and say he ended America’s longest war. That goal took priority over everything else, including executing the evacuation correctly.

Normally a country would get its citizens and equipment out first, and then the military personnel, but Biden did it “ass-backward” and the evacuation collapsed.

The collapse of the U.S. evacuation effort began on July 2nd when our military was ordered to abandon Bagram Air Base. Bagram was the primary base for American troops in Afghanistan and Biden wanted to show America he was really getting us out. But the move made to prove a political point ignored the fact that Bagram was an airport that would have allowed for a safer and easier evacuation of Americans and allies. Bagram is an airport outside of a major city (40 miles from Kabul), making it easier for people to get there as an exit point, and it has two runways twice that of the one used in Kabul.

We simply bugged out of Bagram. Basically, we just turned off lights and slipped away in the middle of the night. We didn’t tell the Afghan forces who were supposed to take the base over in advance. For all intents and purposes, while Biden was sending a political message home that he was serious about leaving Afghanistan, Biden was sending a message to the Afghans–America wasn’t just leaving, we were totally abandoning them. Our abandonment destroyed the morale of the Afghan military, leading to the easy Taliban take over.
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Biden also lacks the remaining synapse in his brain to comprehend this. Unfortunately, some of his supporters have the same impairment.  I also am critical of the military command who were not forceful enough in resisting this debacle.  They should have resigned rather than follow such orders that they should have known would lead to a debacle.