USA etterlot 9.000 amerikanere i Afghanistan

Hans Rustad

05.02.2022 18:59

This image from a video released by the Department of Defense shows U.S. Marines at Abbey Gate before a suicide bomber struck outside Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021, in Kabul Afghanistan. The military investigation into the deadly attack during the Afghanistan evacuation has concluded that a suicide bomber, carrying 20 pounds of explosives packed with ball bearings, acted alone, and that the deaths of more than 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members were not preventable. (Department of Defense via AP)

Utenriksminister Tony Blinken sa de hadde etterlatt 100-150 amerikanere. Det virkelige tallet er 9.000. Diskrepansen sier noe om Biden-regimets forhold til sannheten og respekt for menneskeliv.

The report reveals that State Department officials believed that on August 17, at the height of the evacuation efforts, between 10,000 and 15,000 Americans were still in Afghanistan.

In the next two weeks, only 6,000 Americans were able to escape the country ahead of the Taliban takeover, leaving as many as 9,000 Americans behind. Yet in testimony in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Blinken claimed that “approximately 100-150 remained in Afghanistan who still wished to depart.”

For Biden-regimet har det å redde eget ansikt første prioritet. Rapporten konstaterer at Biden-regimet ikke kontaktet amerikanere om evakuering før det bare var timer til Kabul falt.

According to the report, published by Foreign Relations ranking member Jim Risch (R-Idaho), the Biden Administration “did not hold a senior-level interagency meeting to discuss an evacuation or formally task the State Department (State) to contact at risk populations, including Americans, until August 14, just hours before Kabul fell.”

Rapporten feller en knusende dom over Biden-regimet. Ingenting ble gjort, ingenting gjorde noe.

• Failed to do any contingency planning for worst-case scenarios.
• Ignored intelligence reports about the risk of an imminent Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
• Disregarded dissent cables from Foreign Service Officers on the front lines.
• Abandoned Bagram Air Base based on arbitrary troop caps and political considerations, hampering the evacuations and the reinserted troops.
• Failed to take significant steps to improve the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program despite clear evidence that the program was flawed.

Den kaotiske tilbaketrekningen fra Kabul er en av de største nederlagene USA har gått på siden Vietnam-krigen. Rapporten indikerer at det var selvforskyldt. Trump hadde en detaljert plan for tilbaketrekning. Hver skiftenøkkel skulle flys igjen. Biden-regimet reiste fra alt: Våpen for 84 milliarder dollar.