I was agreeing with you. It's OK to do that, right?
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Leaving Vietnam vs AFG
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Attempting to actually capture a terrorist is often a very high risk prospect that most administrations since soon after the initial terrorists were captured after 9/11 have shied away from in many cases for good reason. The loss of Extortion 17 is a stark example of those risks.
Not only were the missions themselves high risk but as our capabilities to counter terrorist groups post-9/11 have developed I would argue that the value of capturing of high-pri terrorists has diminished as those capabilities have matured. Could there still be value? Maybe. But killing them is probably the much better option in the vast majority of cases.
DARPA needs to work on a tractor beam
BEADWINDOW
Welp, the latest update/official announcement about that righteous drone strike is bad all around.
I'm scratching my head over how we made such a blunder of a mistake. Did everybody involved really get such bad tunnel vision? The only alternative I can come up with is that the other side orchestrated a thoroughly convincing information campaign of false witnesses and pictures, and that we're going along with it rather than fight it and give up whatever intel we had to authorize the strike- not impossible but highly doubtful.
I'm scratching my head over how we made such a blunder of a mistake. Did everybody involved really get such bad tunnel vision? The only alternative I can come up with is that the other side orchestrated a thoroughly convincing information campaign of false witnesses and pictures, and that we're going along with it rather than fight it and give up whatever intel we had to authorize the strike- not impossible but highly doubtful.
Come on man… Over the horizon…
I’ll be the cynical one…the administration needed a “kill” to avenge the 13 people lost in what was supposed to be Biden’s history-making epic of war-ending work (he seriously asked historians what to do to mark his legacy…seriously…one even joked “If you have to ask…”). A target was randomly picked and a story developed. The rest is UAV operators and rocket propellant.
Come on, man. That was like 15 puddings ago.
- I won’t question the decisions of the professionals involved in the joint targeting cycle. They are truly pros. Their task was daunting in this scenario.
- As an intel guy, I have a hunch on a possible straightforward explanation for what happened. Caveat: This is conjecture and with zero insider knowledge. The short version is that the Taliban and/or state actors like the ISI, China, or Russia could have exploited our fear of a 2nd attack and set us up to fail, i.e. by feeding us bad intel through a proxy we thought was credible. They gain by punctuating our withdrawal with an event sure to inflame local Afghans and paint us in a bad light across the Muslim world.
Inside Biden’s private chat with historians about his FDR mentality
After the two-hour-plus meeting, Biden told an aide: "I could have gone another two hours."
So the General who was actually IN Afghanistan was ignored. Cool. The intel that said things were fine must’ve come from the same sources that said that car was full of ISIS-K.
“Stephanopoulos asked a third time, "So no one told -- your military advisors did not tell you, ‘No, we should just keep 2,500 troops. It's been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that’?"
"No," Biden insisted. "No one said that to me that I can recall."”
www.foxnews.com
“Mr. Biden was asked in an interview last month whether his military advisers suggested that he keep a residual force in Afghanistan to avoid a total collapse. He told interviewer George Stephanopoulos “No. No one said that to me.”
Sen. James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Tuesday after the closed briefing that “we heard enough to know that there are inconsistencies between what the administration has said and the truth.””
www.washingtontimes.com
“Stephanopoulos asked a third time, "So no one told -- your military advisors did not tell you, ‘No, we should just keep 2,500 troops. It's been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that’?"
"No," Biden insisted. "No one said that to me that I can recall."”
Psaki dodges on whether Biden was 'honest' when he said advisers all supported his Afghan pullout plan
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki declined to directly answer if President Joe Biden was being “honest” earlier this year when he said in an interview that none of his advisers recommended leaving 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.
“Mr. Biden was asked in an interview last month whether his military advisers suggested that he keep a residual force in Afghanistan to avoid a total collapse. He told interviewer George Stephanopoulos “No. No one said that to me.”
Sen. James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Tuesday after the closed briefing that “we heard enough to know that there are inconsistencies between what the administration has said and the truth.””
Top U.S. general in Afghanistan contradicts Biden, told chain of command not to pull out
The top U.S. general on the ground in Afghanistan told top Pentagon officials that he opposed the total withdrawal of troops before President Biden made the final decision.
www.washingtontimes.com
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Just remember, all part of the plan.
www.firstpost.com
Kabul Airport suicide attacker was freed by Taliban after four years in CIA custody for New Delhi terror plot
Abdul Rehman, a former engineering student with roots in Afghanistan’s Logar province and the son of a merchant who frequently visited New Delhi on business, was freed from Bagram prison on 15 August
It would be a smart play on their part