"Graveyard of Experts"

Silverfiddle Rant!

So much for intelligence. So much for experts. So much for all those who claimed to know how things really were in Afghanistan. 

That a senior military official can admit that the US and its allies had no idea that a state they built was about to collapse is a spectacular admission.
(Afghanistan - Graveyard of Experts)

Now we have dead Marines, killed in a situation that was preventable...

How did we get here?

Elect a dunce controlled by globalist Machiavellians. 

Feed a MIIC hundreds of billions of dollars per year, and when it fails to foresee, deter or prevent a deadly attack on our soil, make sure no one gets fired, and give it more money.

Invade another nation to get the perpetrators, allow the perpetrators to escape to Pakistan, pay Pakistan billions in return, and allow do-gooders with no skin in the game to talk us into pie-in-the-sky humanitarian nation building that has nothing to do with the stated goal of the invasion.

Shun, silence and smear the experts who try to warn you off the doomed project.

Lie to the American people for 20 years.  

Hire and promote bureaucrats and generals and admirals who have no problems lying to the American people.

Hire and promote bureaucrats and generals and admirals who will toady to the stupidest and most dangerous idiocies dreamed up by elected politicians.

"A Failure of Human Intelligence"

I cheered when I woke to the news a few weeks back that we had extracted all troops from Bagram Air Base in the middle of the night without telling anyone. That was great opsec.  And then we heard, but wait!  Embassy staff, American Civilians, and friendly Afghans are still there...  We extracted our military but left our unarmed fellow countrymen and Afghan friends...  Our government has perpetrated a sickening, deadly stupidity. 

Kabul International Airport is not defensible territory like Bagram was.  Our troops are in Fort Apache, as CI said the other day.  I don't think non-military people understand the grave danger they are in. Force protection involves many concentric rings and a multi-spectral set of resources that are harder to deliver when you don't own or control the territory.

Biden needs to unceremoniously throw Milley and Austin out on their incompetent asses.  The Pentagon should see a lot of stars falling in clusters of two, three and four.

People die in military operations.  Hell, we lose people in training exercises.  We all know its part of the deal, but this tragedy did not have to happen.  Those men and women did not have to die.

This is the latest result of a chain of very bad decisions by people too stupid or too cowardly to stop it.  Worst of all, its not over, and we many not be able to dictate the ending.

Please, pray for our troops and the innocent people on the ground.