{"id":84375,"date":"2019-01-20T15:11:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T19:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=84375"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:32:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:32:30","slug":"troops-in-afghanistan-heartbroken-after-speaker-pelosis-visit-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=84375","title":{"rendered":"Troops in Afghanistan heartbroken after Speaker Pelosi\u2019s visit cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan \u2014<\/p>\n

Service members currently deployed to Afghanistan were devastated when they learned that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her entourage of congressmen had cancelled their planned visit this past weekend, sources confirmed today.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump halted the congressional delegation\u2019s trip seemingly in response to Pelosi suggesting the president cancel or delay his State of the Union address, citing security concerns. The bus filled with congressman was stopped at the way to Joint Base Andrews where military aircraft were prepared to carry the representatives to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s terrible,\u201d Staff Sgt. Paul Morin said. \u201cThey were going to cancel the vehicle inspection so we could all go shake her hand for six seconds, but then we had to clean all the vehicles three times.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a shame,\u201d Sgt. 1st Class Mark Klages said. \u201cMorale has gotten get pretty low around here with the holidays being over, the awful weather, the\u00a0ANA\u2019s incompetence<\/a>\u00a0and our confusing strategy, but it would have helped a lot to be talked at by an old lady from San Francisco.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some service members seemed confused as to who the current House speaker actually is.<\/p>\n

\u201cPelosi? Of course I\u2019m upset she didn\u2019t come,\u201d Sgt. Frank Lauer said. \u201cShe\u2019s the hot Puerto-Rican one right?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were going to get an exhaustive, in depth tour of Afghanistan too,\u201d Capt. Christopher Yu said of the oncoming delegation. \u201cThe air field, the chow hall, the hangar where we keep the drones we still have control over, the briefing room, the other chow hall. They were going to get to talk to soldiers and airmen who aren\u2019t allowed to leave the wire and the seven Afghans who still have the clearance to come in here. I don\u2019t know how they\u2019re going to be able to make any decisions about\u00a0a country we have been in for seventeen years<\/a>\u00a0without that experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The outrage over the canceled trip extended to the top of the chain of command.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be honest,\u201d the commander of Operation Resolute Support, Army Gen. Austin S. Miller, said. \u201cI am upset. I was looking forward to giving all those congressmen my assessment of the situation and my guidance moving forward but now I suppose I\u2019ll have to do a video conference \u2026 or send it in an e-mail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congressional delegation fact-finding missions to wartime theaters have a long tradition of effectiveness. The trajectory of the Vietnam War was changed in 1965 when Sen. George Romney was brainwashed by the Phoenix Program, and in 2006, the Iraq Study Group certified the country as a stable democracy after a layover at Al Asad Air Base.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: Troops in Afghanistan heartbroken after Speaker Pelosi\u2019s visit cancelled<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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