Subject: Re: Inheriting a far more dangerous world
Nobody avoided the question.

So we call you "Nobody" from here on out? :) Reminds me of a spaghetti western.


You're using South Vietnam as your example of a normal withdrawal? Double LOL.

It's the only one with relatively similar conditions. But that doesn't matter to you I see.

So you'd pick the one with the indefensible perimeter over the one that did have a defensible perimeter.

Reeeallll libbbbssss of geniuuuuuuuussssss. Love it

Apparently you are unaware why that choice was made by the military.

SNIP Following the U.S. departure from Afghanistan in August, some questioned the hand-over of Bagram Air Base — about 27 miles north of the capital city, Kabul — saying the move was ill-advised and had been a tactical mistake.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said maintaining a presence there would have been costly, and would not have helped the U.S. mission during the waning days of the 20-year war the U.S. waged in Afghanistan.

"Retaining Bagram would have required putting as many as 5,000 U.S. troops in harm's way just to operate and defend it," [ME: vs 2,500 troops per memory] Austin told the House Armed Services Committee during a hearing today on Capitol Hill. "It would have contributed little to the mission that we had been assigned, and that was to protect and defend the embassy which was some 30 miles away."

Additionally, when the noncombatant evacuation operation, or NEO, began, Bagram's distance from Kabul would have offered little help. SNIP