Generals Austin, Milley, and McKensie testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday. Milley and McKensie’s testimony could be summed up with the phrase Biden lied, Americans were left behind and died. Each of the Generals said they recommended leaving behind a residual military force. As Secretary of Defense and part of the Administration, General Austin was not as forthcoming. Generals testified Biden lied.
The US military withdrawal allowed the Taliban to simply conquer the nation in eleven days and then hand the US a figurative eviction notice that would force all of our military assets to be gone by August 31st.
Despite our vast military capabilities, it was well understood that it would be impossible to get every American out of Afghanistan in that time period and if the remaining 2,500 troops were pulled out the Taliban would take over. The nation’s top strategic minds explicitly told that to President Biden. That’s what was testified to Tuesday in a Senate hearing room.
[Secretary of Defense] Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, and head of U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday for a public hearing on the Biden administration’s chaotic military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
McKenzie and Milley both testified that they recommended maintaining a presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
“I won’t share my personal recommendation to the president, but I will give you my honest opinion and my honest opinion and view shaped my recommendation,” McKenzie testified. “And I recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.”
And he wasn’t the only one:
Milley was also pressed on the matter, saying that while he would not share his “personal” recommendations made to the president, his assessment was, “back in the fall of 2020, and remained consistent throughout, that we should keep a steady state of 2,500 and it could bounce up to 3,500, maybe, something like that, in order to move toward a negotiated solution.”
But is contrary to what America heard from the White House: