Evidence emerges of how unprepared Biden administration was for Afghan bug out

 Jazz Shaw:

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The details in the notes are alarming. With barely 24 hours to go, the State Department was being told to “work to identify as many countries as possible to serve as transit points” that would be able to accommodate American citizens, Afghan nationals, third-country nationals, and other evacuees. That instruction was helpfully tagged with a boldface command reading, “Action: State, immediately.”

In other words, as the Taliban forces were approaching Kabul, the White House not only had no way to get thousands of people out of the country but hadn’t even identified the destinations they would be scrambling to send them to. The officials in charge of our embassy in Kabul were told to inform locally employed workers to “begin to register their interest” in relocating to the United States if they wished to do so. So despite what the White House public relations arm was telling us at the time, there was no list of Afghan helpers and employees requiring relocation as part of the withdrawal. Those helpers weren’t even asked if they would like to leave until the day before the city fell.

It seems obvious now that Joe Biden must have still believed that the Afghan government and military would hold up well into the next year right up until the collapse. And keep in mind that the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction in the Department of Defense had warned the Biden administration more than eight months before then that the Afghan Air Force would “collapse” almost immediately if we left. (Followed quickly by the rest of the military.)

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This is more evidence of the half-assed approach of the Biden administration when it came to implementing Biden's bug-out policy.   The results now speak for themselves.  We had a President who made thoughtless decisions and a staff that was unable to rein him back into reality.

See, also:

Colossal incompetence: Biden officials completely unprepared for fall of Afghanistan, leaked memo shows

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