In November, 700 Intercontinental Weapons Were Launched Against the USA?

Other than identification of our spies, there is too much classification going on. It leads to intellectual inbreeding of the staff and decision makers. Too much stovepiping.

Bob Wilson

 

Afghanistan: US State Department report details damning failings around chaotic withdrawal | CNN Politics

State Department report on chaotic Afghan withdrawal details planning and communications failures - CBS News

 

The first paragraph from the Conclusion:

Chargé Ross Wilson left Kabul on the last flight from HKIA on August 31, 2021. The Department and interagency effort to process Afghans who have left or were evacuated and to assist U.S. citizens and SIV applicants now trying to leave the country continues to this day. Still, the departure of the last U.S. military and civilian officials effectively marks the end of a 20-year effort at nation building in Afghanistan. A study of the reasons for the failure of that effort is well beyond the scope of this report, but the sudden departure of President Ghani and the collapse of Afghan Security Forces served as a stark reminder that the future of the country would ultimately be determined by the Afghans themselves, not the United States and its allies and partners. Two U.S. Presidents had decided to withdraw U.S. military forces from Afghanistan on the basis of an agreement negotiated with the Taliban, even as the United States worked to secure at the negotiating table an intra-Afghan peace deal that might bring peace after decades of war. That deal never materialized, but even up to the fall of Kabul, there were efforts underway in Doha to reach an accord that might have created an interim government and allowed the U.S. civilian mission in Afghanistan to remain. Many observers believe that the Taliban used the February 2020 Agreement as a way to simply run out the clock pending the departure of U.S. forces, while President Ghani seemed never fully to appreciate the gravity of the situation or believed that, somehow, the United States might reconsider the decision to withdraw its forces. He also resented having to cooperate with implementation of an agreement that he had never signed.
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That pretty much covers what I remember. Is there some quote from the report that you wish to emphasize?

Bob Wilson

 

"The US State Department on Friday released its long-awaited Afghanistan After Action Review report, which found that both the Trump and Biden administrations’ decisions to pull all US troops from Afghanistan had detrimental consequences, and details damning shortcomings by the current administration that led to the deadly and chaotic US withdrawal from that country after nearly two decades on the ground

A senior State Department official did not explain why it had taken so long for the report to be published, nor why it was released before a holiday weekend, saying they would not discuss questions related to “process.”

Asked about the report on Friday and whether he admitted there were “mistakes during the withdrawal,” Biden noted that he had vowed that al Qaeda “wouldn’t be there.”"

US State Dept report details failed crisis management during Afghanistan evacuations (france24.com)
"US officials were inhibited during mass evacuations from Afghanistan in 2021 by a lack of clear decision-making, an absence of centralized crisis management and confusing public messaging, an internal report found."
"But it said that the operation faced a "major challenge" as senior officials in President Joe Biden's administration "had not made clear decisions" ahead of time about which at-risk Afghans to assist.

"Constantly changing policy guidance and public messaging from Washington regarding which populations were eligible for relocation and how the embassy should manage outreach and flow added to the confusion and often failed to take into account key facts on the ground," it said."

"The United States recently was reported to be planning evacuation plans for a potential crisis in Taiwan."

 

A well known al Qaeda operative living openly in Afghanistan met a specialized, non-explosive, bladed missile:

The R9X warhead-less missile, fitted with lasers, is then dropped to hit the target. Just before impact, six blades swing out of the side of the missile to kill only the intended target, thereby preventing the deaths of bystanders that explosive missiles often lead to.​

Bob Wilson

 

What a nightmare world we build.

 

Is the restart of this thread an attempt to get trump re-elected?

 

Man is a beast to his fellow man, and everything else as well.
We call ourselves civilized, but no objective observer would

 

Yep, we’re the only species that tortures and kills members of our own species and members of others for pleasure or enjoyment, and then keeps body parts as trophies.

 

"What's Your Opinion of Civilization?" "It's a Good Idea. Somebody Ought To Start It" — Quote Investigator®

 

I wonder. Darwin will efficiently select those young male humans most fit for their immediate circumstances (infantry or tank battles or dogfighting or whatever) ... or the ones who are being most capably commanded (regardless of how much influence they had on what group they'd be assigned to or who would command them).

All the same, one can hope that eventually peace breaks out (for a time, anyway), and the humans who were thus selected under those conditions then find that things depend on their fitness under conditions of peacetime society.

 

i'm not sending any money to ukraine, but i did send some relief to the (mostly) innocents

 

darwinism (in regards to war) has not produced a better, higher, more intelligent species, just survival of the fortunate.

 

Might makes right is getting old?