{"id":658812,"date":"2021-08-18T17:38:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T21:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=658812"},"modified":"2021-08-18T17:38:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T21:38:45","slug":"biden-admin-had-zero-indication-that-afghanistan-could-fall-so-quickly-gen-milley-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-had-zero-indication-that-afghanistan-could-fall-so-quickly-gen-milley-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Had Zero Indication That Afghanistan Could Fall So Quickly, Gen. Milley Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-had-zero-indication-that-afghanistan-could-fall-so-quickly-gen-milley-claims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=658812&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_6963-e1629318931284.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration didn\u2019t see any indication that the Afghan military and government would fall to the Taliban in 11 days, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley claimed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Milley said that the U.S. military foresaw three potential options for events following the U.S. withdrawal. One was a speedy fall of the Afghan government; another was a protracted civil war between Afghan forces and the Taliban, and a third was a peace agreement with the two factions. Milley clarified that while the administration saw a speedy fall to the Taliban as a possibility, there were no indications that it could fall so fast as 11 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe time frame of a rapid collapse, that was widely estimated. It ranged from weeks to months and even years following our departure,\u201d Milley said. \u201cThere was nothing that I, or anyone else, saw that indicated a collapse of [the Afghan] army and this government in 11 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" readability=\"8.8826291079812\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MILLEY: \u201cThere was nothing that I, or anyone else, saw that indicated a collapse of [the Afghan] army and this government in 11 days.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EemiwCVHFd\">pic.twitter.com\/EemiwCVHFd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1428075938617729039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Milley\u2019s statement appeared to contradict messaging from Biden and the White House that the administration had planned for \u201cevery contingency\u201d for the withdrawal. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/seven-killed-kabul-airport-chaos-ensues-evacuation-flights-suspended-resumed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: 7 Killed In Kabul Airport As Chaos Ensues. Flights Suspended, Then Restarted)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy national security team and I have been closely monitoring the situation on the ground in Afghanistan and moving quickly to execute the plans we had put in place to respond to every [contingency] including the rapid collapse we\u2019re seeing now,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/08\/16\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s critics have described the pullout from Afghanistan as a national embarrassment, with many making comparisons to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Even with more than 4,000 troops deployed to the Kabul airport, the U.S. military has warned citizens still in Afghanistan that it cannot ensure their safe passage to the airport for evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse described the administration\u2019s apparent lack of a plan to safely evacuate U.S. citizens and Afghan allies as \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe White House\u2019s politically-driven timetable cannot outweigh American lives. America\u2019s message, to our friends and to the Taliban, should be crystal clear: We will move heaven and earth to get every last American in Afghanistan back to American soil, period. That\u2019s the only answer,\u201d Sasse said in a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/17\/taliban-sullivan-biden-afghanistan-kabul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">provided to the Daily Caller<\/a>.<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Sullivan and White House press secretary Jen Psaki repeatedly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/17\/jake-sullivan-refuses-answer-troops-leave-afghanistan-before-americans-allies-evacuated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declined to say<\/a> whether Biden would fully withdraw U.S. troops on Aug. 31 even if some Americans remained unevacuated.<\/p>\n<p>Americans and the world watched images of throngs of Afghans crowding runways in an attempt to escape on American planes. Biden vowed in July that such images were not a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The likelihood there\u2019s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country [of Afghanistan] is highly unlikely,\u201d Biden confidently proclaimed in July. \u201cThere\u2019s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration didn\u2019t see any indication that the Afghan military and government would fall to the Taliban in 11 days, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. 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