Biden Blunder During Speech Has The Pentagon In A Scramble
The United States and the United Kingdom are sending a large contingent of troops to Afghanistan to evacuate their civilians because of a Taliban advance.
JUST IN – UK to deploy 600 troops to #Afghanistan to evacuate Britons.
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Three infantry battalions of approx. 3,000 military personnel to deploy to Kabul airport in the next 24 to 48 hours, according @PentagonPresSec
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Biden was asked about the Taliban’s swift advance and if he was worried images from Kabul would look like Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war.
“There’s gonna be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable,” Biden said.
Joe Biden: “There’s gonna be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.” https://t.co/gYkxaHR6Ml pic.twitter.com/2cw7rO8bgq
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) August 12, 2021
What Biden said was incorrect, the Pentagon admitted they anticipate “airlifting” civilians to safety.
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said during a press briefing they are planning an airlift operation.
“We certainly anticipate being postured to support airlift as well for not only the reduction of civilian personnel from the embassy but also in the forward movement of special immigrant visa applicants. So we do anticipate that there will be airlift required of us and we are working through the final plans right now to put that into place,” Kirby said.
.@PentagonPresSec just said the numbers are in the range of 3,500 to 4,000. The 1,000 personnel are heading to Qatar, with possible forward movement to Afghanistan. https://t.co/pM8O7fyhw9
— James LaPorta (@JimLaPorta) August 12, 2021
Kirby stressed that this is not a combat mission and its purpose is to evacuate personal before the Taliban takes over.
Kabul is about to look like Siagon in April of 1975.