Retired colonel on Fox: 'Afghanistan fiasco shows US military encourages lapdog generals'

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When an historically neoconish outfit like Foxnews hosts and publishes a pundit like this, it's significant.
In the past, terms like "poodle" have been used in US media for some Iraq war leaders like Tony Blair of UK but use of terms like below wrt top US military generals seems very rare if not unprecedented. Some of these leaders have tried to defend our freedoms and way of life despite deep pockets globalist lobbies/ deep zionism lobbies etc having exercized oversized control over political leaders of both well-funded political parties.

Nov 21, 2021

Afghanistan fiasco shows US military encourages lapdog generals, retired colonel says: The Last 96

Austin, Milley, McKenzie could have offered resignation to send powerful message to Biden, retired Col. Andrew Milburn says

By Ethan Barton | Fox News

President Biden’s top military advisers should have predicted Afghanistan’s imminent collapse – and then offered their resignations if the commander in chief refused to modify his withdrawal plans, a former deputy commander told Fox News.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and Central Command head Gen. Kenneth McKenzie had a responsibility to stand firm if they believed the fast-paced troop withdrawal would end in catastrophe, retired Marine Col. Andrew Milburn told Fox News.
"Can you imagine if those three or even two out of three had offered their resignation?" Milburn, a former Special Operations Central deputy commander, said. "You don't think that might have caused the president to think twice?"
He argued that all three are products of a culture the military has fostered that favors leaders who are obedient, rather than principled freethinkers.

"I think they’re products of a culture that has arisen within the U.S. military that simply does not encourage innovative thinking or creative thinking," Milburn, who spent 31 years in the military, told Fox News. "That rewards perhaps obedience above all else."
"I think within our organizations, the Joint Force, we sadly have a culture that does not always see the most strong-willed creative thinkers rise to the top," he continued. "It's a culture that I think is amiss."

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 28: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (C) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley (L) and Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie (R) testify during a hearing before Senate Armed Services Committee at Dirksen Senate Office Building September 28, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee held the hearing "to receive testimony on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan and plans for future counterterrorism operations." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

‘The ultimate sanction’

To date, no one has been held accountable for failing to predict the Taliban’s swift seizure of Kabul while U.S. citizens still inhabited the city. Milburn said the Afghan government’s collapse should have been obvious.
"How are these three holding themselves responsible? I've seen all three of them during the 90-day period use that term," Milburn said of Austin, Milley and McKenzie.

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