From ThePostMillennial.com…
Days after President Biden publicly doubted the strength of the Taliban to take over Afghanistan, the Kabul embassy in July 2021 warned Secretary Antony Blinken and the State Department of exactly that.
The Wall Street Journal reports that embassy officials in Kabul sent a memo to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and “another top State Department official” in July warning of the potential collapse of Kabul after the full withdrawal of troops from the region.
In public statements General Mark Milley and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin denied the notion that the Taliban could’ve taken over the country in a matter of days.
“The cable, sent via the State Department’s confidential dissent channel, warned of rapid territorial gains by the Taliban and the subsequent collapse of Afghan security forces, and offered recommendations on ways to mitigate the crisis and speed up an evacuation, the two people said.”
