Retired recon Marine Chad Robichaux, Task Force Pineapple leader Scott Mann and other veterans sounded off on Adm. Kirby and the White House after their after-action report on Afghanistan was released.
--it would have taken 140 years at the 2021 pace for all qualified persons to be evacuated from Afghanistan.
"Nobody is saying that everything was perfect, but there was a lot that went right. And a lot of Afghans are now living better lives in this country and other countries around the world because of the sacrifices and the work of so many American government officials," he said Thursday."The review process isn’t over," Kirby added.
On Friday, retired Lt. Col. Danny Davis disagreed with the claims of lack of"chaos," telling"America Reports" that there is no way to categorize what was happening on the ground in Kabul in August 2021 other than chaos."I don't know what definition of ‘not chaos’ you can have when you have those images that are iconic … where people are chasing the aircraft as it is driving across the tarmac… ad of course, the catastrophic explosion that killed a lot of U.S.
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