https://www.militarytimes.com/video/2021/08/23/we-mishandled-this-so-dramatically-trump-acting-secdef-chris-miller-on-us-withdrawal-from-afghani/
Link to interview of SecDef Miller
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Discusses failure in Kabul.
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Calls it heart breaking.
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Wept and then got angry.
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Capabilities now established.
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So preventable.
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Have to give Biden respect, but something must have been going wrong.
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Not wrong to negotiate with Taliban.
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Decided not to defeat Taliban. We could have won, but we would have trampled American values.
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2002 it became SpecOps and did not expand it.
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Agreement wasn't struck when DJT was POTUS.
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Needed to establish coalition govt.
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Then ratify next stage.
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That never happened.
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Maintain counter terrorism footprint.
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Plan wasn't executed.
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Plan he was working on was not finalized.
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Biden blaming DJT is straight politics. Doesn't want to get involved in it.
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Politics destroys the military. Desperate for authenticity and truth.
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Miller accepts all responsibility until he left office.
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Special operator and extremely critical of his performance. Always try to get better.
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Full responsibility while he was there.
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Should have been more vocal so incoming admin knew how difficult it was.
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He thought they knew what was going on.
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He wasn't asked.
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Time will tell if war is being ended responsibly.
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Started in a bad way.
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Understands challenges of war. Fog, fiction, chaos.
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Military is well trained.
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Intel community is well funded.
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Fundamental failure.
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Too politicized for him to say what the failure is.
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Wants to assist nation as we go through this phase and avoid in future.
Come back, Q. Come back. Kek.