This is not a good development to peace and stability in the world.

 8-31-21   The former senior military leader, who briefed multiple presidents in his role and spoke anonymously to DailyMail.com, said the Taliban regime will create a new threat to America that will eventually require us to invade - again. 

The general slammed President Joe Biden and top brass for an 'immature, unsophisticated, ad-hoc' plan and said the 'insane debacle', including the deaths of 13 officers from a suicide bomb on Thursday, was 'preventable and totally avoidable'.

The general said that both top current military officers and the CIA advised Biden against the bungled Afghan evacuation from a civilian airport in the center of the Taliban-occupied capital, but claimed the president ignored them.

'I think it's inevitable that we'll be back in Afghanistan before long,' the former senior commander said.  'You'll have a narco state run by Islamic terrorists.  This is not a good development to peace and stability in the world.  How in the world can we stand back, with a nuclear-capable Pakistan, and Iran working towards a nuclear weapon, and Afghanistan in the middle wedged between the two?  The borders are quite blurred there as well as far as populations moving.

'This is unbelievable to me that the US and NATO are going to have no on-the-ground bases in that region.  That region is bordered on the West by Iran, bordered on the East by Pakistan, bordered on the North by China and Russia, and we will have nothing on the ground.  No eyes, no ears, no logistics and intelligence bases.

'The next time we go there if we need to go there, the 82nd Airborne will probably be the guys that need to take it by force.  And then there will be a big expense in dollars and blood to make it happen.' …

'I can tell you what happened in the Biden administration, in the Trump, Obama and Bush administrations.  It happens, there is always friction between the NSC, the White House and the Pentagon, always,' he said.

'I've served several presidents.  I've watched how they handle it.  Most of them listen to it and then make an adjustment to the political plan, based on the best military advice from their joint chiefs or secretary of defense through the joint chiefs.   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9944109/US-inevitably-return-Afghanistan-retired-general-warns.html