This article brings the total to thirteen lives lost as a result of Biden’s blunder. Political machinations always have negative fallout. In this instance the fallout was severe and deadly. Thirteen young service members killed and another fifteen critically wounded, as well as over 160 Afghans killed and injured.
Eleven US Marines, a Navy corpsman, and a US Army Soldier were murdered by an Islamist suicide bomber in Kabul on Thursday. This from redstate.com.
August 26 will always be remembered by Americans as the day a rag-tag bunch of Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan killed 13 US military members and critically wounded another 15.
There’s been some debate as to who’s responsible for this mess the Biden administration has created.
Did the military leadership give him bad advice and that’s why it all went south? Or is it all on Biden and the military leadership is just being cowardly in not resigning and calling it out?
The following is information about the final two young heroes to be identified.
Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola
Was notified last night, that my little brother, Dylan Merola, who was just deployed for over a week, was one of the casualties of the Kabul Airport attack. The news is starting to release his name as the 14th military member to pass away. RIP and say hey to dad & grandma for me pic.twitter.com/rR5wS97sWh
— David Merola (@davidmerolajr) August 28, 2021
Rest In Peace, Dylan Merola.
Dylan was in Kabul for less than two weeks and planned on going to college to study engineering.
“He was one of the best kids ever. Kind. Loving. Giving to every single person. He would give anything for anybody”, his mother said in a statement. pic.twitter.com/nsBXCAktqi
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) August 28, 2021
Cpl. Humberto Sanchez
U.S. Marine Corporal Humberto Sanchez was one of our fallen warriors from the cowardly terrorist attack in Afghanistan.
Sanchez graduated from Logansport High School in Indiana in 2017.
Fair winds and following seas. pic.twitter.com/Iu8NYHZb2Z
— Travis Akers (@travisakers) August 28, 2021
Logansport High School Principal Matt Jones tweeted: “Tough day, Berry Nation- Been thinking a lot about 2017 Logansport Berry and Marine Humberto Sanchez and his family. Thank you for serving our country in uniform and sacrifice.”
God speed men and may God help to bring your families and loved ones peace and healing.
American blood was spilled in Afghanistan on Thursday in a blast from a suicide bomber outside of the airport in Kabul.
Joe Biden allowed terrorists to take control of Afghanistan which led to the release of thousands of ISIS terrorists that were once locked up in prisons next to Bagram Air Base.
There’s a bigger issue here: Joe Biden doesn’t believe anything has gone wrong. He’s told us he thinks this is all just normal consequences of withdrawal. He’s repeatedly said he’s been right, rejecting that there was anything wrong done. That’s just divorced from reality. This from redstate.com.
Psaki was asked Friday about members of the Marine Corps criticizing top generals on social media.
Al Jazeera English correspondent Kimberly Halkett asked, “Does [the president] believe he was given bad advice? And will he ask for any resignations of his generals given the high cost of American and Afghan lives?”
“No to both of those questions,” Psaki responded.
So that means he’s endorsing all the actions, refusing to cashier anyone. He’s explicitly endorsed the decisions. It’s all on him now.
Now, as we’ve said there were some incredibly patently bad military decisions here including giving up Bagram Air Base which would have been much better for evacuations and for the protection of the military when they were doing their job.
People are dead because Joe Biden rejected that option, saying it would require putting in more troops and that might upset the Taliban.
Again, one of thing we’ve seen repeatedly with Barack Obama, but much worse with Biden: being risk averse. He wouldn’t even green light the killing of Osama bin Laden. But failure to act can have much more harmful consequences, as we’ve seen, including people taking advantage of you because they know you are risk averse.
There were 2500 troops in Afghanistan when Biden took office.
According to reports, Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, Gen. Austin Miller, commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin all wanted to keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan to maintain stability that they had been ensuring.
It was Biden who wanted them removed, who wanted everyone out. When questioned by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Biden denied he had been told by the military to keep the troops there.
“No they didn’t. It was split. That wasn’t true,” Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos when asked about the recommendation, which was reported by The Wall Street Journal and other outlets in April.
When pressed, Biden was adamant that military leaders did not argue against his plan to withdraw all troops by Sept. 11.
“No,” Biden told Stephanopoulos in the interview, portions of which aired early Thursday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “No one said that to me that I can recall.”
There is responsibility on the military leadership for not doing more to stand in the way of what they had to know were just monstrously wrong decisions.
Had any of them resigned and made a big stink, that might have stopped some of the disaster and saved lives.
But as Lt. Col. Stu Scheller pointed out, they didn’t have the courage to stand up for what was right. He did, by pointing out their failures. He’s been relieved of duty, they are still in charge.
Beyond a doubt, this catastrophe belongs to Biden alone. He intended to pull everything out and absorb whatever the consequences were, because he didn’t think there would be a lot of consequences.
As I pointed out previously, this mess of this withdrawal was intentional by Biden.
This has been the problem for over seven months now. The election was stolen, Biden was installed, and he is not qualified for or capable of conducting the job.
