Christopher C. Miller, Trump’s newly appointed Secretary of Defense, has directed special operations forces to report directly to him rather than to the current “permanent government” bureaucratic channels.
Tag: 2021 Taliban offensive
The 2021 Taliban offensive and events leading up to it.
Ezra Cohen-Watnick, Trump’s newly appointed Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and former aide to Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Micheal Flynn, who was famously fired by Obama and investigated ad nauseam for an unsubstantiated Logan Act violation, which incidentally the Biden transition team itself is now violating, but I digress, invokes JFK on special operations forces.
The 9/11 commission report recommended that CIA activities be turned over to the defense department because the CIA “relied on operatives without the requisite military training.”
That’s putting it mildly.
JFK, at odds with the CIA, wanted special operations forces with transparency and civilian oversight.
JFK had a tenuous relationship with the CIA, and subsequently was assassinated under mysterious circumstances.
Australian Special Forces shoot & kill an unarmed Afghan farmer, from March 2020. The silver lining is these were Australians, not Americans.
It’s time to leave. Elections have consequences, so it’s now or never.
Trump’s acting defense secretary Chris Miller released a memo about Iraq and Afghanistan which states that “all wars must end” and that “now it’s time to come home”.
The Afghan government is excited about a Biden presidency so it can continue to entrap the US in another 19 years of war.
The Biden team is worried that Trump will pull out of Afghanistan before it has a chance to rack up its own body count.
The 2016 election outcome was an accident. They fixed the problem so it’ll never happen again. It’s polite society from here on out.