[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] ... claiming by abandoning Bagram he prioritized politics instead of questioning Biden's flawed decision to reduce US troops to just 700
- Bill Roggio, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a war on terror think tank, has blamed the Afghanistan debacle on US General Scott Miller
- But Generals Kenneth Mackenzie and Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley and ultimately President Biden share in the blame, the defense analyst said
- 'I think Milley understands what a mess this is and what a mistake that was. He's certainly trying to let the s**t roll downhill,' he told DailyMail.com
- General Miller was behind the decision to abandon the Bagram airbase and use Hamid Karzai International Airport for the evacuation
- 'Miller was the ground commander at the time and proposed the plan, worked on it with [General Kenneth] Mackenzie, then they pushed it up,' he added
- Roggio said Biden also insisted on a reducing US forces to just 700 troops - a flawed plan that he believes should have been challenged by military leaders
- The move backfired when the Taliban swarmed into Kabul within days, surrounding the airport and thwarting the evacuation of US citizens and Afghans
- 'No one had the vision to say if the Taliban is able to run through Kabul before we execute our withdrawal we're going to be in a world of hurt,' Roggio added
- Roggio said generals have the duty to stand up to potentially flawed ideas but claimed some are 'climbers' and have 'largely become political'
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