Deep State Turns On President Biden Over Afghanistan

By Ira RA Stoll April 19, 2021 

In the early days of the Trump administration, the “deep state” — the permanent bureaucracy of the FBI and other national security-related agencies — targeted President Trump and his national security   Some of us warned at the time that there was something fundamentally undemocratic about unelected careerists undercutting the elected president. We were dismissed as conspiracy theorists smearing patriotic whistleblowers.

Now President Biden is in the White House, and it sure looks like the deep state is at it again. This time around the issue is Mr. Biden’s announced decision to pull all American troops out of Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, the 20^th anniversary of the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.  The press is reporting, based on anonymous sources, that the military brass disagreed with the decision. 

“U.S. officials said that Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, and Gen. Austin ‘Scottie’ Miller, commander of U.S. and NATO troops, all advocated a conditions-based approach, additional time for negotiation, or, at a minimum, keeping some sort of residual counterterrorism force on the ground in Afghanistan,” the Washington Post reports. “The generals said that the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, waves of Afghan refugees rushing to neighboring countries and Europe, and the reemergence of al-Qaeda as a potent terrorist threat were very real possibilities.”

The Post says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, “like his counterparts in uniform, supported a continued military presence...........That Secretary Austin sided with the generals rather than President Biden..........[a] terrain just as treacherous as the trap the FBI laid for General Flynn. The principle that the president is in charge of the executive branch applies equally whether the president is President Trump or President Biden. .........To Read More....