Biden Knew Afghan Air Force Would Collapse After U.S. Withdrawal

It’s amazing how quickly and how thoroughly Joe Biden’s Afghan withdrawal debacle has disappeared down the memory hole. It’s equally amazing how our incurious media missed so much of the story at the time.

Even now, as facts continue to dribble out about just how much Biden bollixed up the withdrawal, we are beginning to see the brazen lies and falsifications told by the president. He was covering up what we now know American intelligence thought would happen when the U.S. pulled out after 20 years in Afghanistan.

The Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, John Sopko, submitted his report in January of 2021. It was classified, which wasn’t unusual. What was unusual, says the IG office, is that it took a year to release a declassified version of the report.

Associated Press:

The inspector general’s office told The Associated Press on Monday that it is rare for SIGAR reports to be classified but when they are, a declassified version is issued by the Pentagon in under two months. The office said it did not know why it took the Defense Department more than a year before declassifying this particular report, or why it did so now, five months after the Taliban took power.

That report went into great detail about the sorry state of the Afghanistan air force and how it was wholly dependent on the U.S. military and private contractors to keep the planes flying. – READ MORE