Biden administration was warned about Afghan collapse
An internal State Department memo last month warned top agency officials of the potential collapse of Kabul soon after the U.S.’s Aug. 31 troop withdrawal deadline in Afghanistan, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the document.
The classified cable represents the clearest evidence yet that the administration had been warned by its own officials on the ground that the Taliban’s advance was imminent and Afghanistan’s military may be unable to stop it.
The cable, sent via the State Department’s confidential dissent channel, warned of rapid territorial gains by the Taliban and the subsequent collapse of Afghan security forces, and offered recommendations on ways to mitigate the crisis and speed up an evacuation, the two people said.
The cable, dated July 13, also called for the State Department to use tougher language in describing the atrocities being committed by the Taliban, one of the people said.
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We are seeing incompetence on a grand scale in real-time from this administration. The Biden administration ignored all warning signs as did the US Defense Department and top officers. Biden is responsible for one of the worst debacles in world history and it is still unfolding. Other countries are taking steps to get their people out of Afghanistan while the US is telling Americans they have to get to the airport on their own and the Secretary of defense is talking about deconfliction.
See, also:
US diplomats sent memo urging swift evacuation of Afghan allies weeks before Taliban takeover
And:
Biden administration was warned LAST MONTH by US diplomats in Kabul of impending Taliban 'catastrophe' if troops withdrew and urged to evacuate ALL Americans beginning August 1
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