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General Mark Milley has come under criticism from the right after admitting that no individuals have received punishment for the way in which the conflict in Afghanistan came to an end, but “where people are looking for a pound of flesh. I think they’re looking in the wrong idea here.”
In an interview with Lester Holt, Milley was asked, “Has anyone been held accountable [for] what went wrong with the Afghanistan withdrawal?”
Milley responded, saying, “If you mean has anyone been specifically punished in some way, no.” (Trending: Navy SEAL Says Joe Biden Is A Disgrace
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley is responding to comments by former President Donald Trump suggesting that Milley deserves to be executed for communications the general had with China. https://t.co/gOlcC0rE41 pic.twitter.com/pSgO9mNcEY
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) September 27, 2023
“But, look, Lester, that war didn’t end the way anybody wanted it to end.”
“And I can tell you, with 100% certainty, that thousands of people, from privates, to generals, to people in the interagency, did their very best that they could under the circumstances to make sure that we executed the president’s orders. Wars don’t end because of events in the last ten or fifteen days, any war is the cumulative effect of many, many decisions along the way.”
“This was a 20-year war.” (Trending: 95-Year-Old Veteran Kicked Out of Nursing Home For Illegal Immigrant)
“There were decisions made over 20 years that landed us where we did.”
Mark Milley calls President Trump a wannabe dictator. pic.twitter.com/c247EZrdlJ
— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) October 3, 2023
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