The military's failed response to the rescue operations in Afghanistan

 Salena Zito:

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“The situation as of Monday is gut-wrenching,” said Myers. The Virginia native was part of the American response to the terrorist attacks in Benghazi and the rescue of Capt. Scott O'Grady from Bosnia.

Myers's last assignment before he retired last year was as an intelligence officer under Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley.

Myers has been working with two other retired Marines, Katy Garroway of Maryland and Rico Reyes of Texas. In the final grim 12 hours in Kabul, no matter what anyone in military leadership or President Joe Biden said, no Americans who reached the airport were able to get out, Myers said.

“Within that last 12 hours, I had four buses of American citizens outside the gate," he said. "They were mostly pregnant women and babies, including a child with spina bifida, just all packed together waiting at the gate.”

Myers said his team paid off the Taliban with a big bribe to allow their buses to go through. “They got to the gate, and there was an aid organization that was supposed to meet us with representatives, with the rosters, and to tell the Taliban to expect them.”

The aid organization didn’t show up.

“I, in panic mode, called, and called, and called all my Marine networks, I got the number for one of the top commanders down there explained the situation and we got in a big argument when he told me the Taliban makes the calls down here,” said Myers.

They never got out.

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Myers spoke to the Washington Examiner from Germany after Biden proclaimed the withdrawal “an extraordinary success.”

He says what happened in the closing days in Afghanistan is not what any type of success looks like. Based on what he saw, he disbelieves Biden's claim that 90% of the people who wanted to leave did so.

On Wednesday NBC News reported that of the 120,000 people Biden bragged of evacuating, only about 8,500 of those who left Afghanistan were Afghans, according to initial figures. That's a tiny number compared to the tens of thousands of Afghans who worked for the U.S. government and applied for special U.S. visas. In that same report, advocacy groups told NBC that when you combine the number of Afghans who worked with the U.S. government with their family members, you are looking at upwards of 70,000 people, most of whom are now in the hands of the Taliban.

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There is much more.

This puts the lie to much of what Biden has been trying to seel about the operation.  For those left behind, it was certainly no success and they are in dire and grave circumstances because of the botched retrograde operation of the Milley military.  Americans have been left in harm's way because of Biden's screwy decisions and the military that went along with them.  The only person so far who has resigned was a Marine Lt. Col. who wasn't even there and was upset about the poor handling of the situation.  

It may take another election to get rid of this failed leadership.