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I go along with the other anons thus far on this.
I think the Bidan group may have walked over the military withdrawal in order to get Afghanis to the US as props for the 911 20th anniversary. World peace. Kumbaya. That shit all over again.
Seems to me the first flights of Afghanis before US citizens came too fast for impromptu evacs. I think it had been planned.
So, whatever Bidan did may have FUBARed the military withdrawal, such as weakening a pressure point by re-missioning forces for the Afghani flights, etc.
Dems wanted to put on a photo op (what else is new) show at the 20th 911 and it backfired. Perhaps JCOS & Secdef tried to pull it off, but military brass at another level pulled the plug due to troop safety. As bad as situation is now, having undermanned positions get overrun and deaths and POWs taken would have been worse, for example. LOTE decision by a military command at a level we don't know about, perhaps.
Explains to me, at least, the pissed off allies. They got caught unawares in the clusterfuck. Command making the decision had to compartmentalize due to leak fears back to Bidan, maybe. Call for court martial from Brit indicates, to me, that Bidan group countermanded a highly coordinated op .Bidan tried pulling his weight over military planners, being the bully I think he is, and got bit in the ass.