Did some US Four Stars — plan the incompetence of their Afghanistan withdrawal — to slap President Biden?

© 2021 Peter Free

 

17 August 2021

 

 

Title's hypothesis seems likely to me

 

Consider that CNN last night reported relative quietude during the day in Kabul itself. Yet television showed mob chaos at the airport. Including people clinging to an American C-17 as it tried to taxi to Celestial Freedom.

 

One wonders whether the CIA (for instance) might have generated some of that chaotic action. That deviousness occurring, so as to accentuate the US military Four Stars' point that leaving Afghanistan was a bad idea.

 

Presumably, the Four Stars reciprocated by (pretend witlessly) failing to set up a foreseeably necessary and adequately manned perimeter.

 

This concoction of egregious incompetence made for, one must admit, searing TV.

 

All this occurred, I tentatively (but deductively) hypothesize, with the express Military Command intention of making Commander in Chief Biden — and by implication, former President Trump — look bad for having advocated withdrawal from the pointless war.

 

A war that, to Military Command's eyes, had advanced so many careers and so benefitted the Profit-Gobblers in the military industrial complex that will employ them, after they leave military service.

 

Remember — in ascertaining Whys and Whos — follow money and prestige.

 

 

The angry-making part of all this is . . .

 

. . . that it has been gross military incompetence and presidential power-lust (along with an unending stream of intentionally crafted untruths) that have kept this conflict raging for 20 years.

 

 

And now, it will be even more infuriating when . . .

 

. . . as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow — the unequivocally double-botched (and more) Afghanistan withdrawal process will be used as an excuse for more military funding and more trust in our Four Star gravitas-bearers.

 

'Let them not have died in vain', will be the mantra.

 

 

The moral? — Chew on all this . . .

 

Tell me that my tentatively envisioned anti-Biden plotting is not likely.

 

Assure me (instead) that the American Four Stars are so incompetent that they:

 

 

could not foresee what has always been tactically and strategically obvious

 

(after 20 years of serially received lessons in this and other wars)

 

cannot (even minimally) competently plan ahead

 

idiotically left thousands of folks behind

 

(during the first Afghanistan troop withdrawal)

 

had no decent plan to come back for the second evacuation

 

and

 

could not anticipate that some Afghans might be so desperate to leave

 

that they might clog easily anticipatable escape routes

 

(what with the Taliban literally pounding on their doors)

 

and further that

 

these same Four Stars are (and were) too stupid to fly in enough rescue troops

 

and (further) could not, for the life of them

 

 establish a proper perimeter at the airport

 

(so as to protect the Air Force's escape-completing C-17s).

 

 

How likely are those appalling levels of dumbshitness in a Four Star?

 

And now, what about the people, who are probably still left behind?

 

Are you still trying to assure me that a third return is not part of these presumably scheming Four Stars' stay-forever-plan?

 

You can see how these Afghanistan circumstances look to a cynically wise, elderly and scumbag-weary observer.