Biden administration resisted military efforts to prepare for Afghan evacuation

 Power Line:

According to the sworn testimony of military commanders involved in the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, senior White House and State Department officials failed to grasp the Taliban’s steady advance on Afghanistan’s capital and resisted efforts by U.S. military leaders to prepare the evacuation of embassy personnel and Afghan allies weeks before Kabul’s fall. The result was the perilous, chaotic, and ultimately deadly withdrawal that stunned America.

This indictment is contained in a 2,000-page Army investigative report that the Washington Post obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The report also includes previously unreported disclosures about the violence American personnel experienced in Kabul.

But the key point is the Biden administration’s failure to realize how imminent a threat the Taliban posed:

Military personnel would have been “much better prepared to conduct a more orderly” evacuation, Navy Rear Adm. Peter Vasely, the top U.S. commander on the ground during the operation, told Army investigators, “if policymakers had paid attention to the indicators of what was happening on the ground.” He did not identify any administration officials by name, but said inattention to the Taliban’s determination to complete a swift and total military takeover undermined commanders’ ability to ready their forces.

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Responding to questions about the report, Gen. Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie, chief of U.S. Central Command, hemmed and hawed about the evacuation before finally admitting:

[There] might have been other plans that we would have preferred, but when the president makes a decision, it’s time for us to execute the president’s decision.

Even when the president is Joe Biden, who has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security matter for as long as anyone can remember.

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The Biden administration is a disaster from top to bottom and in between.  Democrats no longer seem to have any competent people in office.  If there are any, they are overruled by the incompetent.  In the military, there were not enough who were willing to resign rather than go along with such a disaster.