Biden’s defense secretary has no plans
to resign over Afghan disaster
Posted By: Ribicon, 8/16/2021 3:29:30 PM
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has not offered his resignation to President Biden following the complete collapse of the U.S.-trained and equipped Afghan military and has no plans to do so, Pentagon officials said Monday. A day after victorious Taliban forces rolled into Kabul with little opposition, Pentagon officials said they are now focusing their attention on securing Hamid Karzai International Airport so the remaining Americans in the capital can be safely evacuated. “It’s a fluid and dynamic situation,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters. “There will obviously be things that I don’t know because things are continuing to unfold.” There have been what Pentagon officials called “security incidents”
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The embarrassment that is Joe Biden
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Obama’s Former Ambassador to Afghanistan:
I Question Biden’s ‘Ability
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I Question Biden’s ‘Ability
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The fall of Afghanistan has shocked Obama’s former ambassador to such a degree that he is now questioning President Joe Biden’s ability to lead the nation.
Speaking with The Spokesman-Review, Ryan Crocker, who served as Obama’s ambassador from 2011 to 2012, lamented that the Biden administration failed to see the Taliban’s swift takeover when preparing for the withdrawal from Afghanistan.“I think the direction was predictable; the trajectory was not,” he said. “What President Biden has done is to embrace the Afghan policy of President Trump, and this is the outcome.”Just a little over a month ago, Joe Biden rejected assertions that U.S. withdrawal would lead to
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The Taliban are somewhat hostile to Christians, which is fine with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, but where things really become problematic with New American values is their strong opposition to homosexuality and transgenderism and their indifference to Climate Change, all of which are among the Pentagon's top strategic priorities.