Retiring General Scott Miller is to blame for the bungled US exit from Afghanistan, a military expert who predicted the fall of the nation’s capital months ago has claimed.
Bill Roggio, a senior fellow at think tank the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, slammed military leadership, telling DailyMail.com he tried to warn the Pentagon of the swift advance of the Taliban towards Kabul in the weeks before they took the city but was ‘ignored’.
Roggio said President Joe Biden insisted on a reduced force of just 700 troops to both keep the US embassy in Kabul open and secure an airport to evacuate the rest of the 3,500 US soldiers, thousands of other Americans and Afghan allies.
As the US commander on the ground and facing the tight constraint, Miller chose Hamid Karzai International Airport in the middle of Kabul for the evacuation, telling US forces to abandon the nearby military airbase of Bagram outside the city.
Miller left Afghanistan in July and is due to retire from the military.
But his fateful decision came back to bite him when the Taliban swarmed into the capital within days, surrounding the airport and frustrating the evacuation of both Americans and allied Afghans, leaving many stranded and at risk of attack.
No Biden is to blame, Miller is the fall guy
No, they both are at fault and need ti resign.
Both WOKE need to GO !!!!
State Dept was in the driver’s seat.
With fewer troops left, military didn’t think they could secure both airfields. Karzi can be seen from the embassy; Bagram is outside of town but has more than one runway, and was the military base so inherently more secure.
So the general based there, who’s taking the fall, had the decision made in DC and had to cobble together what we’ve seen unfold. Probably without the reinforcements hurriedly sent back in. What made any of these idiots decide to remove the garrison before the civilians?
The ultimate blame lies with the senile Resident who wanted to take a victory lap politically next month and didn’t really want to hear of anything that would impede his planned triumph. He’s prepared to leave behind any Americans and any deserving Afghans who can’t find a seat or standing room on an outbound flight.
The Taliban have a multi-decade track record of summarily executing any man, woman, child they please, using barbaric means to create terror in survivors. He has been aware of this fact all along. So prepare for the gruesome stories about American victims in addition to wholesale slaughter of Afghans.