Right now we already have 70% or more with people over the age of 50 and closing in on 80% for those over the age of 60. These are our most vulnerable and the portion of our population who have probably contracted the virus more than anyone else and developed the highest levels of natural immunity.
Yesterday the President stated (with a straight face) that we are looking at at least 97% of the population will need to be immunized before we get herd immunity. Pretty sure this was not something that he got from Dr Fauci or any doctor other than maybe Dr Who. This is also a key example of why the President's handlers do not allow him to take questions.
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The hearing is more important than your attempt to discredit scientists.
Senator James Inhofe, the Senate Armed Services Committee’s top Republican, squarely blamed the Biden administration. Inhofe said Biden ignored the recommendations of his military leaders and left many Americans behind after the U.S. withdrawal.
“We all witnessed the horror of the president’s own making,” Inhofe said.
Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified that he did not anticipate the speed of the Taliban takeover. But he noted the military’s warnings since late 2020 that an accelerated withdrawal - without being tied to any conditions - could precipitate the collapse of the Afghan military and government.
“That was a year ago. My assessment remained consistent throughout,” Milley said.
DRONE STRIKE, SUICIDE BOMBING
Austin praised American personnel who helped airlift 124,000 Afghans out of the country, an operation that also cost the lives of 13 U.S. troops and scores of Afghans in a suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport.
“Was it perfect? Of course not,” Austin said, noting the desperate Afghans who died trying to climb the side of a U.S. military aircraft and the civilians killed in the last U.S. drone strike of the war.
Milley said the Taliban “remains a terrorist organization” which has not broken ties with al Qaeda. He warned that a reconstituted al Qaeda in Afghanistan with aspirations to attack the United States was “a very real possibility” - perhaps in as little as a year.
That warning is likely to unsettle Republican lawmakers, who are skeptical of the Pentagon’s ability keep track of al Qaeda and Islamic State threats, and act quickly on any information it gets.
However, Austin defended the Biden administration’s plans to address future counter-terrorism threats from groups like al Qaeda and Islamic State by flying in drones or commandos from overseas.
“Over-the-horizon operations are difficult but absolutely possible. And the intelligence that supports them comes from a variety of sources, not just U.S. boots on the ground,” Austin said.
They also extraordinarily were upset by the same two things that you have been talking about.
The 13 dead soldiers and the bombing of civilians in Kabul.
They are not covering up the President's statement about 2,500 troops.
Top military leaders confirmed media reports that they recommended that the U.S. keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, and that they believed withdrawing those forces would lead to the collapse of the Afghan military.
Why it matters: Biden denied last month that his top military advisers wanted troops to remain in Afghanistan, telling ABC's George Stephanopoulos: "No one said that to me that I can recall." Sleepy Joe Biden?????
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and the head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Frank McKenzie, declined to discuss specific conversations with Biden, but told Congress it was their "personal opinion" that the U.S. keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.Milley stressed in his testimony: "I am required and the military commanders are required to give our best military advice, but the decision-makers are not required to follow that advice."
The big picture: The Pentagon’s top leaders have come under intense scrutiny over the series of disasters that followed the U.S. exit. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Milley and McKenzie are testifying before Congress for the first time since the withdrawal.
https://www.axios.com/milley-testimony-afghanistan-withdrawal-lloyd-austin-2e27f2da-dd96-42fd-85a9-9719bf465a42.html
This story is updated regularly.
But he noted the military’s warnings since late 2020 that an accelerated withdrawal - without being tied to any conditions - could precipitate the collapse of the Afghan military and government.
You mean like the plan bad orange man had negotiated?
On recommendations for the withdrawal: Milley said in an opening statement that his analysis in the fall of 2020 was that a rapid U.S. withdrawal without the Taliban meeting specific conditions could result in the collapse of the Afghan government and damage U.S. credibility. "That was a year ago. My assessment remained consistent throughout," Milley said.
They believed that no matter when we would withdraw from Afghanistan it would have collapsed completely.
This is going to cause problems with the President...
Why it matters: Biden denied last month that his top military advisers wanted troops to remain in Afghanistan, telling ABC's George Stephanopoulos: "No one said that to me that I can recall."
Why it matters: Biden denied last month that his top military advisers wanted troops to remain in Afghanistan, telling ABC's George Stephanopoulos: "No one said that to me that I can recall."
He cannot recall what he had for breakfast, much less what military advisors told him. He is completely clueless and Roger thinks he is the greatest President since Reagan!
Cotton is a fucking joke despite being a veteran..I watched it.
WATCH: GOP's Tom Cotton gets schooled after asking Gen. Milley 'why haven't you resigned'
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) attempted to school Gen. Mark Milley during the Tuesday hearing about the Afghanistan withdrawal, but it didn't work out as he may have anticipated.
Cotton, who previously served in the U.S. Army, demanded to know why Milley hadn't resigned after his recommendations were rejected. Milley explained that isn't the way military service works.
"Senator, as a senior military officer, resigning is a really serious thing," said Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "It's a political act if I'm resigning in protest. My job is to provide legal advice or the best military advice to the president. That's my legal requirement. That's what the law is. The president doesn't have to agree with that advice. He doesn't have to make those decisions just because we're generals."
Former President Donald Trump infamously proclaimed U.S. generals "don't know much because they're not winning." He later said, "I know more about ISIS than the generals do."
Milley explained that were he to resign just because President Joe Biden didn't take his advice, "It would be an incredible act of political defiance for a commissioned officer to just resign."
"This country doesn't want generals figuring out what orders we're going to accept and do or not," Milley continued. "That's not our job. It's critical. My dad didn't get a choice to resign at Iwo Jima. They can't resign, so I'm not going to resign. There's no way. If the orders are legal, we're in a different place. If the orders are legal from civilian authority, I intend to carry them out."
I actually met a veteran of Iwo Jima and he was still struggling with his feelings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBZVDMhBxRw
You can't separate.
I think his policies are replacing top down economics with bottom up economics
I'm not going to judge mental fitness from my home.
Did he lie?? Perhaps because politicians like Trump lied doesn't prove mental illness.
Sleepy Joe was started by Trump
I'm not a cultist like you Scott.
Milley comes across much better than I would have expected.
It also begs the question as to whether or not Milley believes in a "woke military" or if he just believes it's his duty to carry out the orders from civilian leadership because they are not "illegal".
WATCH: GOP's Tom Cotton gets schooled after asking Gen. Milley 'why haven't you resigned'
Doesn't sound like an impartial source. I rather watch the hearings directly and make up my own mind.
This is going to cause problems with the President...
Why it matters: Biden denied last month that his top military advisers wanted troops to remain in Afghanistan, telling ABC's George Stephanopoulos: "No one said that to me that I can recall."
No matter how Democrats try to spin it. Especially Jan Psaki. The inescapable truth is that Biden lied to George Stephanopoulos.
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