Originally Posted by
tdracer
As far as I'm concerned, every senior US military leader who was involved in the "planning" (I use the word loosely) and execution of this withdrawal should be fired as soon as the dust settles - maybe even before. A few should even be court-marshaled. Then the people who were actually boots on the ground and saw what a disaster it was should be promoted to take their places - having seen what the price of failure really is.
It won't happen - the leaders be showered with praise and honor for their 'heroic actions' with lots of undeserved medals given out.
But it should.
I would suggest the State Department owns most of the blame for this debacle. It sure sounds like Military commanders were sounding alarm bells but the State Department mandarins were not interested in listening because it conflicted with their world view of a negotiated peace treaty with the Taliban, like that was ever going to happen
The Military was handed an impossible Shyte show and told to make it all belter
