Former Generals Call For Resignations Following Bungled Afghanistan Withdrawal

Via America’s Lawyer: Following the calamitous withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, nearly 90 retired U.S. generals call for the immediate resignations of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley. Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Dozens of retired generals are calling for the resignation of top military officials following the Afghanistan withdrawal that became a nightmare for everybody left in the country. Farron Cousins from trial lawyer magazine joins me now to talk about this. Strong language. I don't know how language can get any stronger from these generals that said you really blew it. Milley, you really blew it. Biden you, I mean, across the board, it's an attack. They described it's like celebrating the Titanic sinking as the most successful lifeboat rescue in history. What's your take on this story?

Well, look, I mean, there's, there's no question obviously and you and I have agreed on this, we needed to be out of Afghanistan 100%. but that doesn't mean that we need to look at all the chaos that happened and said, oh, okay, no, this is a good thing. Milley, Austin, with the, secretary of defense, they were the ones who were supposed to be giving guidance here. They were the ones looking at the intelligence that our agencies have been putting together for 20 years and finally just said, okay, you know what, go ahead and just pull the trigger now. Just get everybody out. We'll see what happens. And it's their job though, it's their job.

Yeah.

To, to give this military advice that clearly did not pan out well.

Part, part of the criticism is this was done by political decisions on their part. They didn't want to rock the boat. They thought they were afraid that was going to hurt their political career. And so what you have, the bothersome thing when you really drill down on this, they had seven months to plan this. Okay. I mean, if, give, give Biden the biggest give you can give him, he had seven months to plan this. You had a bipartisan committee, Republicans, Democrats, who said, you know what, it might take as many as 14 months. But Biden understood that the midterm elections are coming up and he did this for the midterm elections. He did this so he could go on TV on Tuesday, pat himself on the back and say, great job. There's no way to escape this. Look, we both agree, we had to get the hell out of there. We never should have been there at all except for corporate media helped put us there. We'll talk about that in just a minute. But some of these quotes are, are just strong. I mean, the, here it is. The consensus of the disaster are that enormous, or they're enormous and they're going to reverberate for decades. These general said, the death and torture of Afghans has already begun and it's going to result in a major human tragedy of major proportions. Another quote by the generals, the loss of billions of dollars in advanced military equipment and supplies falling into the hands of our enemies is catastrophic. Now our adversaries are emboldened to move against America due to the weakness displayed in Afghanistan. Terrorists around the world are emboldened and able to pass freely into our country through open borders on Mexico. I mean, look, we've seen generals attack the White House before.

Right.

This might be the strongest I've seen. I don't, I don't know. Maybe you can recall something else.

Well, well, and some of, you know, what you were just reading there, that gets into a little bit, okay, you see the warmongering starting to come out with some of these people. Like, oh, because they mentioned, oh, Russia is now going to come. China is going to come. The immigrants are going to come.

Right.

The terror. So you know that part, you go, they go a little too far with that. And that is a little bit, you know, it's their job.

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