{"id":116539,"date":"2021-08-18T10:50:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=116539"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:50:53","slug":"biden-and-his-admin-lied-about-what-they-knew-about-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=116539","title":{"rendered":"Biden and his Admin lied about what they knew about Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As we all watched Afghanistan fall in record time over the last few months to the Taliban, whom we ousted 20 years ago in similarly swift fashion, we were repeatedly told by Biden directly and members of his administration (including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) that the Taliban weren’t a major threat and that the Afghan National Army (ANA) would be up to the task of securing their country.<\/p>\n

The President, on 8 July of this year, was asked “Is a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?” His reply;<\/p>\n

No, it is not…Because you \u2014 the Afghan troops have 300,000 well-equipped \u2014 as well-equipped as any army in the world \u2014 and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

General Milley, CJCS on 21 July of this year;<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think the end game is yet written. A negative outcome, a Taliban automatic takeover, is not a foregone conclusion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even far-left, pro-Biden Politico took umbrage with those statements<\/a> not appearing to be supported by facts on the ground.<\/p>\n

Poetrooper sends in this Townhall article that looks into the quarterly Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General’s report on Operation Freedom’s Sentinel (the continued military operation in Afghanistan). In that report it seems is a lot of proof that the intelligence agencies were saying the exact opposite of what Biden, Milley, and others were telling us. They were lying at best and willfully, intentionally ignorant of the realities at worst.<\/p>\n

From Townhall<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General released its quarterly Operation Freedom’s Sentinel report to Congress on Tuesday, providing “background about events leading up to recent, significant and fast moving developments in Afghanistan.”<\/p>\n

The 98-page report reveals what the Pentagon knew about Afghan security forces’ capabilities and the threats posed by the Taliban and other terrorist groups in the country. What it shows is that the Biden administration knew that the events of the last few weeks were not only possible but were likely to take place. The report is peppered with DIA intelligence and media reporting that showed the Afghan forces couldn’t ward off Taliban aggression without U.S. and coalition support, yet the Biden administration responded with surprise as the Taliban took one provincial capital after another and last weekend arrived in Kabul.<\/p>\n

As the IG report outlines, the Biden administration knew that the Afghan forces were unlikely to succeed in slowing or stopping the Taliban’s advance, it knew the Taliban had its sights set on Kabul, and it knew that the Taliban was only engaged in political negotiations to seek legitimacy but planned to step up its military offensive to take the country by force. It also warned that plans for Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport were likely insufficient due to a complicated agreement with Turkish forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More at the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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