General Who Oversaw Afghanistan Withdrawal Says Mission Was 'Doomed From The Start'
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- čas přidán 16. 08. 2022
- Nearly one year after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the commander of U.S. troops at the time is speaking out in an NBC News exclusive. General Frank McKenzie lead the withdrawal mission and says it was “doomed from the start” as 13 Americans were killed in the botched plans to leave the Bagram Air Base. NBC News’ Courtney Kube reports.
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Why isn't This US Marine general in prison? How pathetic!!
Because he doesn’t make the decision to withdraw, he executes the orders from the commander in chief.
This general has abandoned a country of people , millions of dollars in American military equipment , and Americans who are STILL over in Afghanistan. This is called shifting the blame… it’s what children do.
Never visit a disfunctional country like Afghanistan or Russia 👌
Abandoned? He rightfully left a place where he wasn't wanted. Let them fight their own civil war.
He was carrying out the orders of the Biden Administration. A General doesn’t get to make those decisions.
What a disgrace. Not one general or anyone in the administration has been held accountable.
youre right, Colin Powell and George Bush should be in prison
Well general McKenzie is in agreement with US military central command that Trump was mostly to blame. I am all for holding him accountable.
@@joshuamorrison8332 Don’t have a clue who General McKenzie is. You do realize Trump was out of office for 8 or 9 months, when Biden orchestrated the single most disastrous withdrawal in us history, right??
@@joshuamorrison8332 when has McKenzie ever said Trump was to blame? He said “I believe what happened in august of last year occurred because of the decision to completely leave in April.”
@@joshuamorrison8332 Biden needs to be held accountable. This is 100 percent on him!
I don't know why this lesson is so hard. The US in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. Russia in Afghanistan, Ukraine, the Eastern bloc. The British everywhere. The French in Algeria, Vietnam. People don't want to be colonized. Countries could get away with this for a period in history. They cannot anymore. For example, Russia has zero percent chance of conquering Ukraine. Because Ukrainians don't want it. As for Afghanistan, they are just going to have to figure out their own problems. If they want to live in the Stone Age of human rights, that's their mess to figure out.
I served with this general there when he was a colonel in Afghan. He is right we should've kept presence there and it's all on BIDENS WATCH. He has to share any blame
Never enter another war we don’t intend to totally dominate and win!!!
Amen!!! We have not won a war since 1945. We won that war because we were all in. There was but one goal. Unconditional Surrender!!! It didn’t matter where the enemy was or where they hid we killed them. We also knew enough that the path to our victory required breaking the enemies will to fight, cutting off their ability to eat cutting off all medical abilities. Complete destruction of the enemy. We didn’t have places that were off limits even if we knew the enemy hid there. Either you wage an all out war or you stay out. Fighting a war with restrictions only serves to ensure that you lose. We know how to lose and we have forgotten how to win.
So the general who wants to keep his post advocates keeping his post in a foreign country where we have no declared war. He them denies responsibly for the failures of evacuating.
Somebody interview the weapons manufacturers & ask them are their bank accounts full enough?
Instead of spending 2 Trillion dollars in Afghanistan we could have given free college for thousands of people who couldn't afford college, to have more engineer's, scientist, to innovate, instead we letting china get ahead.
Right?
OR,... even better,... the tax payers could have kept that money that they earned.
@Jacob Yates why don't u go defend them.
You would’ve gotten another 9/11 but at least you can do it with free college amiright?
This war criminal should be in prison.
After 20 years of lies about Afghanistan I’m done listen to these people.
Like Viet Nam. The whole country must want a change. America lives are still lost for nothing if change doesn't occur. The occupied force live in the days of Mohammed there choice. Stay out of there business. Not worth our troops lives.
Unlike with Vietnam, America was attacked first. I know many Americans don’t remember, but 9/11 claimed almost 3,000 innocent civilian lives. In my opinion, that’s worth fighting until the end to ensure it never happens again.
Sad part of this, lots of heads of state were saying the same thing after are invasion. remove Al-queda’s base of operations, in Afghanistan. Then what? You will Fail? Theirs an interview with late former prime minister of Singapore. Lee kuan you, who’s said it best “how on Earth are you gonna, hold this mess together”.
This general is Disgusting! The afgans did fight with you! All the Generals should be fired and not get any raises that they are asking for. The withdraw plan was a huge joke. The Generals and 1 Admiral has all that blood on their hands. SHAME ON YOU!!
Biden.. I can’t recall if all my generals urged me to stick to the plan, and not vacate Bagram or US troops before attempting a withdraw of civilians.. LOL
These same generals wanted to keep the war going forever! Like literally this guy’s suggestion was to leave troops there indefinitely. I’m glad Biden didn’t listen to that chump!
This general knowingly abandoned a whole country of people, many of whom that dedicated the last 20 years to fighting alongside american soldiers in the hopes of one day, finally being able to live in peace. He is partially responsible for the brutal torture of any afghan people captured by the taliban, and punished for working with our country. ever since america's disgusting betrayal against afghanistan and frankly, democracy, my heart has ached every single day for those people. what my country, and this general did to afghanistan is on every level heinous and abjectly cruel.
You mean the whole country of people that simply put down their arms and welcome Taliban with open arms once they heard us white men were leaving
@@hangender no, the people we turned our backs on. we pulled the rug out from under them
" We " we're never in charge and never " Won " anything out of this. We were lied into a war and the American people lost the will or care to fight it in 2010, the fact it continued on as long as it did is just a testament to how much our military industry runs our country.
@@annabeckett3644 how exactly did we turn our backs to them or pull the rug from under them?
We had no obligations to them in the first place. Neither do they have obligations to us.
The general was ordered to do a job and he seems to have done a poor job and full of excuses now. As an American, I never agreed to war in Afghanistan and neither did Congress declare a war. We never should have gone, and leaving is a good thing.
Captain Hindsight
Blinken is wrong, as usual. He obviously doesn't get it.
Thanks you general obvious.
That’s ironic to say given he was the commander at CENTCOM
Gee thanks for the heads up Captain oops General Obvious.
Simply...How smoothly we runaway from Afghanistan.🤣
It is so shameful you as Marine let our brother. You were out of touch. Please tell the families . Please tell me whe you became Politician.
Well thank god he took ownership…right?
Sure seems like USA helped create and sustain past 40 years of deadly civil war in Afghanistan. First the USA armed the Mujahideen who fought each other and killed many Afghans. Then the USA armed the Republic after which USA armed the Taliban when leaving. This is what USA did in Afghanistan beyond looking for Osama and fighting the Taliban themselves. More specifically the USA military did not and probably could not create peace in AFG because they were not peace keepers. Moreover the USA state Department and USA Presidents and USA Congress may never have thought peace was possible in AFG or necessary to USA interests.
Lawsuits "R" Us
The normal America response is they always leave an active manned military base in country they have 'visited' this gives them some control to events going on in Afghanistan
We only leave them in areas where are economic and national interests coincide. Explain to me how Afghanistan is vital to our economic and national interests 20 years after 9/11??? I’ll wait…
No Afghan freedom fighters now or in next 25+ yrs.
The general that o.k.d the drone strike on innocent family
Yes. Let’s be honest, it’s easier for many Americans-especially conservatives-to blame a Democrat president for leaving Afghanistan (which both Obama and Trump promised to do) instead of facing the reality of two decades of failed occupation (and yeah, we all know the “it’s how he left”, which is why Obama and Trump didn’t do it).
👆🏽 This and Co-signed.
General McKenzie and US military central command blame Trump. Conservatives pretend to support the military but turn on them whenever it is politically convenient to do so. These guys weren't appointed by Biden. They are just leading our armed forces with integrity like they always do.
Trump wanted out in May not that tarded september.
Afghanistan was at a stalemate before plans to withdraw even occurred. The American public just didn’t like the time table required for securing Afghanistan because their narrow sighted.
We should have gotten out as soon as Bin Laden was killed. This is on Obama, Trump and Biden all. Obama and Trump should have withdrawn our troops; Biden, if he wasn’t so dementia-riden and his generals should have actually had a plan and not tried to just yank our troops out, should not have ignored the safety of our troops, US citizens, our allies and the afghans who helped us and were left behind to be tortured and killed by the Taliban.
Man conservatives are so angry at general McKenzie (and US military central command who agree with him) for saying that Trump mishandled Afghanistan foreign policy regarding troop withdrawal. This isn't ancient history. We all remember it. Trump negotiated with the Taliban, caving to their demand to exclude the Afghan government from talks. Then he announced a timeline and said that the US would withdraw all forces. You all joined me in saying to yourselves, holy crap! Donald this isn't how you do this! And sure enough, we were right.
2:33 watch this statement again. Trump wasn’t president in April so I’m not sure how you spun this one.
@@ericlane3256 He clearly says Aug 2020 and honestly, we don't even need to argue about this. Trump's public announcement in Feb 2020 is the subject matter. It was on all the news channels. Everyone knows that Donald negotiated with the Taliban without the Afghan governments involvement and decided to draw down to zero troops with a given timeline against the advice of his military. I'm not saying that everything was Trump's fault but McKenzie was there on the ground. We shouldn't twist his words.
@@joshuamorrison8332 Doha was signed in February 2020 as you said. When McKenzie said “April of last year” he was referring to Biden’s attempt at a cheap political win which was the unconditional withdrawal from Afghanistan, despite the Doha Agreement. The Taliban offensive began in May. To address your other point, the Afghans weren’t involved in Doha because they refused to negotiate with the Taliban which honestly I can’t blame them but it’s a common Twitter talking point to blame Trump for everything.
@@ericlane3256 I wrote a long response with details but it didn't post correctly. I'm tired so I'll just say that I'm talking about trump not Biden. I'm talking about when McKenzie references trump's bungled deal with the Taliban. There are hundreds of news articles About this. Also the Taliban refused to meet in Doha if the Afghan government was present because they did not view them as legitimate. It wasn't the Afghan govt who refused to meet with the Taliban nor was it mutual. Again, so many news articles. If you have an alternate fringe theory then fine but don't present it like an established fact
Except, Trump wasn’t in office during the withdrawal. That’s all on the Biden administration and and his generals. They all f’d up, and if Trump had pulled that crap, I’d be on his case too.
Another brilliant move by JB...
The Taliban are Freedom Fighters. They defeated the American Invaders and sent them back to their country in coffins.
Now Afghanistan is ruled by Afghans and not Americans. Now that the Americans realised that it is impossible to defeat the Afghans on the battlefield, they use economic sanctions and propaganda.
Long live the Taliban and Long live all proud Muslim nations. I am proud to be Muslim.
What did the Taliban win? A freaking country stuck in the dark ages. Congratulations