Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Lakengulf Date:   9/29/2021 1:42:27 PM

I do believe that it would not have made a difference with Biden and Blenkin if every General in the room had tossed their medals on the table in defiance of his decision not to leave troops in Afghanistan.  It was going to happen.  And I do think Austin is right to blame State Department, because I believe that Blenkin had Biden's ear and the decision had already been made, despite any options the military presented. This iwas a State Department operation from the word go.  The military may have been flying the planes and providing security, but the State Department was running things, and those people have no ability to plan.  Look at what they did in Iraq after the invasion.  Common sense does not exist in the State Department.  

What you have seen is that the military understood that Biden was the decider, not them.